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PUy “BACK IN
Bush: Syria ‘gets message,’
cooperates with demands
By Jennifer Loven
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CRAWFORD, Texas —
President George W.Bush
applauded signs Sunday that
Syria is beginning to heed
American demands for cooper
ation against Saddam Hussein’s
defunct regime.
Lowering U.S. rhetoric that
had led to speculation that
Syria could become Bush’s
next military target, the presi
dent focused on diplomacy as a
way to contain Syria.
“There’s some positive
signs,” Bush said, after attend
ing Easter services at the Army’s
Fort Hood not far from his ranch
outside this central Texas town.
“They’re getting the message
that they should not harbor
Baath Party officials, high rank
ing Iraqi officials.”
Tensions between the United
States and Syria escalated after
reports surfaced that members
of Saddam’s deposed govern
ment had crossed the border to
flee the U.S.-led war.
U.S. officials have exerted
intense pressure, demanding
there be no haven in Syria for
Saddam loyalists and telling
Damascus that diplomatic or
economic sanctions could result
unless Syria cooperated.
Syria has denied taking in sen
ior Iraqis or providing other aid.
Two senators agreed Sunday
there have been positive devel
opments but said the jury
remains out on Syria.
“I think the military success in
Iraq has had a profound effect
everywhere,” Sen. Aden Specter,
R-Pa., told CNN’s “Late
Edition.” “Whether, at this point,
Syria will take the next step real
ly remains to be seen. But it’s the
best climate, the best opportunity
in modem times.”
I think the military
success in Iraq has
had a profound effect
everywhere.
Aden Specter
Sen. R-Pa.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-lll.,
credited Syria with helping in
the antiterror war against al-
Qaida in the aftermath of the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“There’s been some evi
dence that they’re moving
toward a more cooperative posi
tion with the United States,”
Durbin said. “But... you look at
the history of Syria, its history
of harboring international terror
ist organizations in Damascus,
of sending its army to occupy
southern Lebanon and harass
Israel. It’s really not the kind of
conduct which we can counte-
Tensions easing in the Mideast
By Calvin Woodward
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The military presence in Baghdad lightened
Sunday when Marines left the Anny in control of
the stabilizing capital. Celebrating Easter, a long
time Iraqi bishop voiced the fears of the Christian
minority in urging safeguards against religious
persecution in the new Iraq.
The search for postwar order was reinforced by
signs that Syria might help ease regional tensions.
In Texas, flanked by two stoic helicopter crew
men home safe from Iraqi captivity, President
George W. Bush said Syria appears to be heeding
warnings to avoid becoming a safe haven for
Saddam loyalists.
“They’re getting the message,” Bush said.
Tensions eased elsewhere in the region. In
Israel, authorities declared the Iraqi missile threat
against their citizens ended and prepared for the
departure of U.S. soldiers manning defensive
Patriot missile batteries south of Tel Aviv.
Hoping to advance the frustrating search for
banned weapons, allied forces announced the arrest
of a top science official from Saddam’s govern
ment — a man who might know about Iraq's pur
ported hidden nuclear weapons program, according
to a pro-U.S. Iraqi umbrella opposition group.
U.S. Central Command said Abd al-Khaliq
Abd al-Ghafar, Saddam’s higher education and
scientific research minister, was taken into cus
tody Saturday. Haider Ahmed, spokesman for the
London-based Iraqi National Congress, said Abd
al-Ghafar could be an important find.
“We know about his background, and he is
certainly involved with those banned programs,”
he said.
Ahmed also said Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law
and one of Saddam’s bodyguards, both hiding in
Syria, were persuaded to leave that country and sur
rendered to members of the congress in Baghdad.
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WORLD
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NEWS IN BRIEF
A&M graduation
speakers announo
nance as part of a peaceful
future for the Middle East.”
Bush used the past tense
Sunday when asked for details
on Iraqi leaders believed to be
in Syria.
"We felt some were there;
otherwise, we wouldn’t have
spoken out,” he said.
Syrian President Bashar
Assad told two U.S. congress
men Sunday that the country
will not give asylum to war
crimes suspects from Iraq and
will expel any Iraqi who should
cross the border. Reps. Nick
Rahall, D-W.Va., and Darrell
Issa, R-Calif., visiting
Damascus, described the Syrian
president as eager to deal with
U.S. concerns.
Bush said other countries,
which he did not name, have
helped press the U.S. message
with the Syrians.
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak visited Damascus on
Sunday for a meeting with
Assad. At a meeting Friday in the
Saudi capital, the foreign minis-:
ters of Iraq’s neighbors — Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, Jordan,
Turkey and Iran — along with
Egypt and Bahrain condemned
U.S. threats against Syria.
Senior U.S. officials, including
Bush, had accused Syria of pro
viding Iraq with war materiel, giv
ing haven to senior Iraqi officials
and permitting foreign fighters to
pass through Syria to join the war
against the U.S.-led coalition.
Former U.S. Secretary
State James Baker III and)
Bartell Zachry, chairman
CEO of H.B. Zachry Co.willp
others in addressing appro;
mately 4,000 A&M grad®
May 9 and 10.
On Friday, May 9 at 9 a.m,
Bartell Zachry, Class of ISSi
will speak to graduates io
undergraduates in the Dwi;
Look College of Engineer
and in veterinary medicine
Reed Arena.
James Baker III will speal
graduates and undergrade
in architecture and liberal!!
in Reed Arena at 2 p.m.Maf
Maj. Gen. Charles F. BoM
Jr., a former NASA astroiui
will address graduates in tr
George Bush School
Government and P
Service and graduates
undergraduates of the Low
Mays Business School on
9 at 7 p.m. in Reed Arena
Also at 7 p.m. Friday, Dr.li
Stephens will speak to dot!:
of veterinary medicine
ates in Rudder Auditorium
Stephens is the founder ar
chief executive officer
Veterinary Pet Insurance.
President of Texas All
Kingsville Dr. Rumaldo Jus:
will speak at 9 a.m. Saturday
Reed Arena to graduates
undergraduates in agricili
and life sciences, and inei
cation and hum
development.
Each ceremony is open
the public.
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34 people dead in
Krgyzstan landslide
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (/
landslide swept through a via
in southern Kyrgyzstan
Sunday, killing 34 people, an
cial said.
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had declared
national prior
criticism th;
in the southern village of Soa
said Berdikul Sultanov,
deputy head of the tsp
administration. He said
nary information indicated!
people were killed.
The landslide occurred
three days of snow and weel
rain. Authorities had repeat!
warned residents of the i
about 350 miles south of Bisli
that conditions were ripe I
landslide.
Sultanov said the destroy
homes were covered in
Russia's Interfax news
reported that 19 other
were safely evacuated. It saidff
electricity and telephone seift
in the village were cut.
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originated in
Gao Qianp
health minist<
to cancel the
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Yemen man admits
to killing American!
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JIBLA, Yemen (AP) -
Yemeni man with suspected;
Qaida links told a court Sundi
that he killed three Amelia
missionaries to defend Isla'
believing they were sterile'
Muslim women and trying
convert Muslims to Christian!
Abed Abdul Razak Kamel,-'
said he moved from the cap!
of San'a to this city 125 mi!
south after he heard aboutm
sionaries working in Jiblaal
Southern Baptist-run hospital
"I acted out of a religiousdf
... and in revenge from
who converted Muslims
their religion and made tilt
unbelievers," the be
Kamel said as his trial
under tight security.
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