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Show 11 %l 'Hi Today'shsue Today is Friday, Sept. 12,2008. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Michelle Cook, a freshman majoring in elementary education from Salt Lake City, Utah. 2008 death toll for US in Celebs&Peopte Afghanistan highest yet KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)Insurgents killed two U.S. troops in Afghanistan on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Thursday, making 2008 the deadliest year for American forces since U.S. troops invaded the country in 2001 for sheltering Osama bin Laden. The deaths brought the number of troops who have died in The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct Afghanistan this year to 113, any error made as soon as possible. If you find according to an Associated Press something you would like clarified or find unfair, tally, surpassing last year's record please contact the editor at 797-1762 or TSC105. toll of 111. Afghanistan was the launching pad for al-Qaida's terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. U.S. forces invaded in October 2001 in response and quickly drove the Taliban out of power. Across Afghanistan, U.S. troops paused in silence FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska (AP) Thursday to commemorate the - Sarah Palin says she didn't blink when John 9/11 attacks. At a U.S. base in McCain asked her to be his running mate. Kabul, members of the New York In an interview Thursday with ABC News' National Guard, many of whom Charlie Gibson, the 44-year-old Palin was served at the site of the World asked if she felt ready to step in as vice presi- Trade Center after the towers dent - or perhaps even president if somecame down, remembered the thing happened to the 72-year-old McCain. attack on their home state. Palin says she has confidence in her readi"For those of us who were ness: "You can't blink. You have to be wired there, served at Ground Zero, in a way of being so committed to the mis9/11 is deeply personal," said Col. sion, the mission that we're on.... So I didn't Brian K. Bale, the commander of blink then, even when asked to run as his the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat running mate." Team. Maj. Stephen Bousquet, 34, of Buffalo, N.Y., provided security at Ground Zero for three weeks after the attack. He now trains and mentors Afghan police, he HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - South said, "so American and coalition Africa's president says he has successfully forces can leave one day." mediated a power-sharing deal between Osama bin Laden, leader of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the al-Qaida network, is believed the opposition. South Africa's Thabo Mbeki did not offer to be in the lawless tribal belt on details, but said Thursday that the agreement the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. would be signed Monday. Opposition leader He had been sheltered by Taliban Morgan Tsvangirai told reporters the parties "have got a deal." Mbeki has been in Zimbabwe since Monday trying to work out how Tsvangirai and Mugabe would run a unity government. NEW YORK (AP) The key stumbling block has been how Presidential candidates John the two rivals would divide responsibilities McCain and Barack Obama and who would have the most authority. made ground zero their common Mugabe had shown little willingness to ground for one rare day, free of give up much of the power he has held since politics and infused with memory. independence from Britain in 1980. Putting their partisan contest on a respectful hold, they walked together Thursday into the great pit where the World Trade Center towers once stood and, as one, SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - State landhonored the dead from the terrortrust officials approved a 2,200-acre lease ist attacks of Sept. 11,2001. for development of salt caverns near the They walked down a long Intermountain Power Project in central ramp flanked with theflagsof Utah. countries, chatting at times, silent Salt Lake City-based Magnum other times, and sharing a quick Development says it plans to map, test laugh at one point. Right behind and possibly hollow out the thick salt them, Cindy McCain clutched deposit as a repository for natural gas, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's arm compressed air or carbon dioxide. - Michelle Obama was with her Developers of a nearby wind-turbine daughters in Chicago. farm could use compressed air to store At the bottom of the ramp, the energy for peak times. two rivals stopped to talk with Or the caverns could store carbon a small group of relatives of the dioxide from the neighboring coal-fired attacks' victims of seven years ago. power station if the federal government They laidflowersat the pit's comdecides to regulate carbon emissions. ClarifyCorrect Naf/Briefs" Palin says she's ready to step in as president Zimbabwe power sharing deal struck US M I L I T A R Y O F F I C I A L S attend a ceremony marking the 7th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, at the U.S Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. AP photo leader Mullah Omar before 9/11. Taliban fighters folded in easy defeat in fall 2001 in what at first appeared to be a resounding U.S. victory. But militants that U.S. commanders once derided as ragtag amateurs have transformed into a fighting force advanced enough to mount massive conventional attacks. Suicide and roadside bombs have turned bigger and deadlier than ever. The number of Arab, Chechen and Uzbek militants flowing into the Afghan-Pakistan region has increased this year, bringing with them command expertise the Taliban lacked. U.S. death tolls have climbed sharply from the first years of the war. Only five American service members died in 2001. Thirty service members died in both 2002 and 2003; the toll climbed to 49 Ln 2004, then 93 in 2005 and 88 in 2006. Last year 111 troops died, including one killed by a sniper while meeting with Pakistani offi- cers in Pakistan. That mark was surpassed Thursday - with more than three months left in the year - reflecting both the increased number of American troops deployed to Afghanistan as well as the insurgency's increasing potency. Top U.S. generals, European leaders and analysts say the blame lies to the east, in militant sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan. As long as those areas remain havens where fighters arm, train, recruit and plot increasingly sophisticated ambushes, the Afghan war will continue to sour. "What you have is a broad expansion on the front, and because of this you have expansion in areas of the Taliban. Even in areas where there is no substantial fighting, the presence of insurgents has increased," said Anthony Cordesman, a security expert with the Washingtonbased Center for Strategic and International Studies. Candidates commemorate 9/11 Utah leases salt deposit for energy storage , Fimtty Owhid and Optrtfttf memorative reflecting pool - a pink rose from Obama, a yellow rose from McCain - bowed their heads and walked off to speak with fire and police personnel. There were no speeches. "Thanks, we'll see ya," McCain told Obama as the Democrat patted the Republican's back and they shook hands and parted. Earlier, McCain spoke briefly at a simple ceremony in remote, rural western Pennsylvania, held on a large hilly field close to where United Airlines Flight 93, the third of four airliners commandeered by terrorists, crashed. Investigators believe some of the 40 passengers and crew rushed the cockpit and thwarted terrorists' plans to use that plane as a weapon like the ones that hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon. All aboard all planes died. The Arizona senator said those on the flight might have saved his own life, as some believe the terrorists wanted to slam that plane into the U.S. Capitol. He said the only way to thank those who died on the flight is to "be as good an American as they were." Obama, in a statement, said that on Sept. 11, 2001, "Americans across our great country came together to stand with the families of the victims, to donate blood, to give to charity, and to say a prayer for our country... Let us remember that the terrorists responsible for 9/11 are still at large, and must be brought to justice." Left unsaid by both was their sharp disagreement over the Iraq war, which McCain supported and Obama opposed as a distraction from the Afghanistan war and broader fight against terrorism. It was not a day for spelling out differences but rather a respectful time-out in an otherwise heated campaign with 54 days to go. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kanye West and one of his bodyguards were arrested Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport after an altercation with paparazzi inwhichl the rapper allegedly smashed a camera on the floor. Airport police arrested West and his road manager, KANYE WEST Don Crowley, who also serves as a bodyguard, on suspicion of felony vandalism shortly before 8 a.m., LAX spokesman Marshall Lowe said. He said early reports indicated that a camera valued at more than $10,000 was broken. The incident happened before West and his bodyguard passed a security checkpoint at an airport terminal that houses American Airlines. TORONTO (AP) - One clear fan of a new Paris Hilton documentary has a familiar name: Paris Hilton. As she left the theater where "Paris, Not France" premiered Tuesday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, Hilton gave a few claps of applause after director Adria Petty was announced for a question-and-answer session to discuss the documentary. With close access to Hilton, Petty shot extensive footage of Hilton talking about her image, her notorious sex tape, the tabloid photographers who follow her and just the business of being herself. "I'm basically being judged, and they're creating this false person, and I can't do anything about it," Hilton says in the film. LateNiteHumor Top 12 Perks ofBeing A NASCAR Driver 10 - Don't have to shave your body like Olympic swimmers.... although, why not? (Jeff Gordon) 9 - Hasselhoff promised me one of those talking cars (Greg Biffle) 8 - I use old checkered flags to make fabulous throw pillows (Tony Stewart) 7 - There's nothing like going through a car wash at 190 miles per hour (Jeff Burton) 6 - GPS underpants (Denny Hamlin) 5 - Sorry, I forgot my joke -1 was thinking about Jessica Alba - man she's hot (Clint Bowyer) 4 -Run out of olive oil? A little Quaker State will spruce up any salad (Dale Earnhardt, Jr.) 3 - Traveling to exotic locations like Martinsville, Virginia and Dover, Deleware (Jimmie Johnson) 2 - At high school reunions, it's fun to ask, "So what do you do for a living?" (Carl Edwards) 1 - After a race, your ass vibrates for days (Kyle Busch) Automotive Repair & Service > .' ^ UT 84341 * Dlaanostfcs Complete Domestic, Foreign, European, Gas or Diesel Repair, ATVs, Motorcycles, Snowmobiles and """ |