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THE BATTALm
Denver residents flee
as wildfire approaches
DENVER (AP) — In a faint
haze of gray smoke, residents
on the outskirts of Denver
packed clothing, family photos
and even a wedding dress
Tuesday in case they had to flee
the largest wildfire in
Colorado’s 126-year history.
Chris and Lori Sutton awoke
at dawn to the smell of smoke
drifting through an open bed
room window. Chris Sutton said
the smoke in his hilly subdivi
sion was so thick it was “like
fog,” though it blew away a few
hours later.
“You’re not sure what to do.
Do you stay? Go?” he asked,
standing outside his home 23
miles southwest of Denver. His
wife left for work in a car
stuffed with a handful of their
belongings. The tire was still 10
miles away but getting closer.
By mid-afternoon, the wind-
whipped blaze had grown to
80,000 acres and stretched for
15 miles along the Rockies
foothills. It was moving slowly
to the northeast, toward Denver,
and was within 35 miles of out
lying suburbs.
Hundreds of residents have
left their homes, and Douglas
County authorities urged the
Suttons and more than 13,000
others near Sedalia — 20 miles
south of Denver — to leave.
Thousands more were told they
may have to flee.
Fire information officer Joe
Colwell said 400 people had been
cleared out of their homes in
Teller County. He also said crews
were pulled off the tire’s southern
lines as a safety measure.
“Where it’s kicking up is
down on the southeast flank, he
said. “It’s really been creating
havoc.”
The fire was one of at least
eight burning across Colorado,
including a 10,400-acre blaze
that destroyed 28 homes near
Glenwood Springs, about 150
miles west of Denver. That fire
was only 5 percent contained,
but thousands of people were
allowed to return to their homes.
The blaze southwest of
Denver was nowhere close to
being contained and officials said
it was too dangerous to put tire-
fighters on its northern fringes —
between the flames and homes in
Douglas County, one of the
fastest-growing in the country.
“There is such a tremendous
amount of heat that you can t
put firefighters on the ground in
front of it,” fire information offi
cer Tony Diffenbaugh said.
In the fire’s wake, skeletal
trees stood among blackened
pine needles and cones on the
forest floor. Flames jumped from
treetop to treetop as thick, tall
plumes of smoke billowed above.
Earlier Tuesday, shifting
wind had helped slow the larger
fire’s march toward Denver and
clear an otherworldly haze that
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Prisons seen as breeding
ground for terrorist group
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prisons are attracting
increasing attention from law enforcement as
breeding grounds for terror groups seeking mal
contents who can use their American citizenship
to blend into society and carry out attacks.
The capture of homegrown terror suspect Jose
Padilla, who the United States says was plotting
for a radioactive “dirty bomb,” is a reminder that
the nation could have potent enemies within.
“Our prisons are stuffed full of people who
have a hatred of the prison administration, a hatred
of America and have nothing but time to seethe
about it,” said Robert Fosen, former assistant
commissioner of New York state prisons.
“Oftentimes they want a way to lash out or feel
important. They are very likely to join groups that
facilitate that anger. Anti-American feelings help
all sorts of gangs recruit in prison.”
Padilla, 31, a New York City native and former
Chicago gang member who also goes by Abdullah
al Muhajir, is the first American accused of bring
ing al-Qaida’s terrorist campaign to U.S. soil.
In 1992, Padilla was sent to a Florida jail for
pulling a gun on another driver. When arrested, he
identified himself as Catholic, according to police.
U.S. officials believe Padilla converted to Islam
while in jail and headed to Afghanistan and
Pakistan in the late 1990s.
Tracked for some time, he was arrested May 8
upon his arrival at Chicago’s O’Hare International
Airport on a flight from Pakistan
Being in prison not only contributes to hard
feelings, it can sometimes provide a harbor tore
rorists to act against the United States within
own borders.
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, serving a lifese
tence in New York for plotting to blow up\®
marks, is accused of sending messages v
prison through visiting attorneys that directed:
rorist acts to followers.
Officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, resp
sihle for guarding accused American Taliban It
Walker Lindh and Zacarias Moussaoui, accused
conspiracy in the Sept. 1 1 attacks, say they
taking extra precautions to make sure nocnn®
contacts occur.
Prisons and jails are adjusting to the natn
need to keep track of dissidents.
In New York, a senior prison official said
prisons have asked Islamic religious g®
whether they support terrorist groups. The off
speaking on condition of anonyrnity, said
group has been barred from ministering at the
ons. The official declined to identify the gioup
In Florida, prison officials said the Sept
terrorist attacks have not led to new policies
security was already high — hut they ra |v
awareness that some religious groups could
linked to illegal activities.
“We examine and look at every group
gious included, as a possible threat tosecut
the institution, to the staff and to inmates, _
Sterling Ivy, spokesman for the Florida P n y
system.
A disti
lished
NEWS IN BRIEF
Agreement could
double severance
payments for laid
off Enron workers
HOUSTON (AP) — A tentative
agreement was reached
Tuesday that could more than
double the severance pay for
some laid-off Enron Corp.
employees.
Lawyers for the former
employees, Enron and the
Enron creditors' committee
hope to submit the agreement
for approval later this week to
the federal bankruptcy court in
New York, said AFL-CIO attor
ney Lowell Peterson.
According to the union, the
negotiations resulted in an
additional $29 million in sever
ance for the more than 4,500
people who lost their jobs
when the former energy giant
collapsed last year in a furor
over its accounting practices.
Under the proposed agree
ment, former workers who
already have received $5,600
in severance could get an addi
tional $7,900.
Enron spokesman Mark
Palmer said the company is
"pleased to have reached an
agreement to pay our former
employees additional sever
ance benefits."
The laid-off workers already
have gotten some $43 million
in severance.
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Stone completes
Pentagon outer walls
WASHINGTON (AP)
Workers fitted a blackened slab
of limestone into place at the
Pentagon Tuesday, marking
nine months since the Sept. 11
attack by completing repair of
the building's damaged facade.
"You've healed this wall, and
in doing so, you're helping to
heal this nation," Deputy
Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz told a crowd of con
struction workers at the site.
He said the reconstruction
honors those who died here
and defies those who seek not
to build but to kill and destroy."
The stone placed Tuesday
was engraved with the date -
Sept. 11, 2001 — it was dam
aged when hijackers
American Airlines jet '-'-. become
Pentagon, killing themself The(
and 184 others. i s the c
Behind it, Walker Lee ar
head of the Pentagon renovati f the |
program, put a bronze de' t | 1e natic
tion capsule" containing na ^, e || sa j
of the victims and mementos j m ^j or
the terrorist attack. nient he
Workers have rebuilt the P j j_jy ni
tions of three outer rings o departm
massive office building tha said it w
to be torn down after tunity fc
attacks. The rebuilt s ® ctl j ; . s,e P out
have to be finished with The
wiring, fixtures and the enrolls
before furniture, and graduate
workers, can be moved bac est dep
The project is on targe ; Enginee
have people working in . uiuease
outer ring, where the P' an ® l ; ^ ause i
on the first anniversary o degree,
attack, Evey said. W £
Officials now estimate the ind
reconstruction will cost •' m, t
million, Evey said, down fr^ departm
$740 million estimate se stive th
months ago. He saidjthedegr
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Defense Department is canS ..
ering spending the e |; n ^ es
$239 million on measure Jfesents
further protect the Pe^ M o U1
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