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HI - r fi 8A Thursday, March 27, 2003 THE BATTALIO) India, Pakistan test missiles Missile tested in India By Nirmala George THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI, India — India test-fired a short-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon on Wednesday, and neighbor Pakistan immediately announced it had tested a similar missile. The nuclear-armed rivals often conduct such tit-for-tat tests of missiles capable of reaching parts of the other’s ter ritory. The launches came as India repeated assertions that Pakistan was to blame for the recent mas sacre of 24 Hindus in Kashmir, the Himalayan province claimed by both South Asian rivals. With the United States and the international community consumed by the war in Iraq, there are fears the nuclear rivals might carry out provoca tions so as to keep some of the world’s attention on their dis pute over Kashmir. Pakistan complained that India didn’t notify it in advance of its test. “The common practice is for each country to inform the other before conducting a test, but this time we were surprised,” said Aziz Ahmed Khan, Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokesman. India successfully fired a Prithvi missile from its Chandipur testing range in Orissa state. The missile has a range of 95 miles. Baljit Singh Menon, a defense ministry spokesman, said the test was routine. Pakistan tested one of its Abdali missiles, which can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads and has a range of less than 132 miles. Khan would not say where the missile test was conducted, or whether it occurred before or after the Indian test. “Pakistan has also test-fired a missile today, but we informed India about it,” Khan said. Tensions have increased since the massacre Monday in the village of Nadimarg. The victims, who included two chil dren and 11 women, were upper-caste Hindus known as Kashmiri Pandits. A group of anned men dragged them out of their homes and shot them at close range, police and witness es said. Police said they believed the gunmen were Islamic militants, who have been fighting for Kashmir’s independence from India since 1989. “The pattern, methodology and the nature of targets of these acts of terror are all too familiar and therefore the culpability of Pakistan is all too clear,” said Navtej Sarna, a spokesman for India’s foreign ministry. New Delhi has long accused Pakistan of supporting the Islamic militants. Pakistan insists it does not provide fund ing or weapons. The two countries came to the brink of war after similar India test fired a nuclear capable surface-to-surface missile called Prithvi Wednesday from its testing ranges in eastern India. FBI: terrorists can easi build deadly weapons WNEP. jCHINA New Delhi 7. 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In addition, material collect ed in Pakistan after the March 1 capture in that country of senior al-Qaida planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed provided further proof that operatives experi mented with various forms of chemical, radiological and bio logical weapons, law enforce ment officials say. The FBI bulletin says hydro gen cyanide or chlorine gas could be produced by combin ing liquid and solid materials, possibly using a canister such as a paint can with holes pierced into it. The materials could be combined using either a blasting cap or some kind of delayed switch. “When combined, this cre ates the toxic gas that would emerge through the holes,” the bulletin says. Such a device would be most effective in an enclosed space, the bulletin adds, because it would be dispersed too quickly in larger areas or out in the open to kill or injure many But police, firefighters and® ical personnel could be ii iled when responding to t attack because “the devicei reactivate when it isdi In January, the i police to beware of attacks using ricin, a toxicsiif stance derived from the cat bean plant. That warning fi lowed the arrests last years Britain of 11 North Africans on terrorism charges from an alleged develop a ricin weapon. The bulletin came asMl continues to interview Iraqis^ ing in the United States at tl* rate of about 1,000 a day, will goal of reaching 11,000 bytk end of this week. a Little or no training is required to assemble and deploy such a device due to its simplicity. FBI intelligence bulletin released Wednesday By Laura THE ASSOCI The interviews, focused (» those who have recently eled to Iraq or have ties Iraqi military, are intended lo discover the identities of terrorists and spies in States and also to find anyii mation that might be U.S. forces in Iraq. The bulletin also repeatedlk FBI’s search for Adnan G,0 Shukrijumah, a 27-yeawl! Saudi-born man who maybeai al-Qaida operative. H Shukrijumah left the Miamiatet in May 2001 for Morocco according to his family, bulla' enforcement officials saytbe; do not know his whereabouts. El Shukrijumah was idei fied in part by information col lected after Mohammed's cap ture in Pakistan. WASHINGT jfficials fear th aerable to a 1 vith a little-kno asy to find ar luce. Just a gra oxin — the we aaper clip — c han 1 million p Officials are )lug vulnerabi mprove the ab hould an attack “We are m lighest priori! Anthony Fauci nstitutes of He overnment’s t< officials. “We haling all avaik The toxin, the found naturally infects those wh fear terrorists c< nation’s food su thousands, mal anthrax attacks minor by compai The governr enough antitoxin victims of a sma official put the ir than 1,000 dos< treatment needec produced only 1 orogram now in j' of the state’s bud The issue tak urgency as the wages war with Iraq told the Ui made more Ions of botulinur loaded much of North Korea calls off military contact with U.N By Vincent Yu THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PANMUNJOM, Korea — North Korea on Wednesday cut off the sole regular military con tact with the U.S.-led U.N. Command that monitors the Korean War armistice, saying it was “meaningless” to sit with the Americans. The move will further isolate the North amid heightened ten sion over its suspected nuclear weapons programs. The North has accused the United States of using the nuclear issue as an excuse to attack the communist state, and Pyongyang has said it would boost its defens es amid such fears. But South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on Wednesday dismissed as “groundless” alle gations by the North that U.S. forces may attack and spark a “second Iraqi crisis” on the Korean Peninsula. “There will be no war on the Korean Peninsula as long as we do not want a war,” Roh’s office quoted him as say ing, adding that Washington has repeatedly pledged to resolve the crisis peacefully. Meanwhile, U.N. envoy Maurice Strong said Korean officials told him in meet ings in Pyongyang last week tbsi they “reserved the right" reprocess spent fuel rods t experts say could yield enoi plutonium for several ator bombs within months, Sucli move would spike tension even further. The North’s Korea Army sent a telephone to the U.N. Command will no longer send its to the liaison-officers’meetingal the in ter-Korean border village of Panmunjom. “It is meaningless to sil together with the U.S. forces silt to discuss any issue as long as il remains arrogant,” the Nor official news agency KCi quoted the North Korean m sage as saying. The announcement came lawmakers from across No Korea convened the countiy’s rubber-stamp parliament heightened tension over the com munist state’s suspected weapons program. The U.N. Command has monitored the armistice since the end of the 1950-53 war, no immediate comment, a peace treaty, the Korean Peninsula is still technically in J state of war. NEWS IN BRIEF Former Enron executives indicted for scam HOUSTON (AP) - A federal grand jury on Wednesday handed upt 19-count indictment against two former mid-level Enron Corp. execu fives alleged to have used accounting tricks to generate Si 11 millionin fake earnings from the bankrupt energy trader's failed attempt to stab an Internet movie-on-demand service. The indictment mirrors criminal charges of securities fraud, wiff fraud, conspiracy and lying to the FBI unsealed March 12 against Kevin Howard, 40, and Michael Krautz, 34. Both are free on $500,000bond and deny the charges. A pretrial hearing is set for July 1. The charges stem from an attempt by Enron and the video chain Blockbuster Inc. to set up the video-on-demand business using broal- band technology in a transaction dubbed "Braveheart." At the time, Howard and Krautz worked for the now-defunct Enron Broadband Services unit. Prosecutors say Enron secretly promised profits from the deal to outside investors. 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