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Iraqis
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of rapes that have occurred since
the fall of Saddam Hussein’s
regime in early April. One
woman said she heard that there
have been seven; Abdel-Hassan
puts the number at 100.
With nothing to counterbal
ance the rumor mill — there is a
void of officialdom with the U.S.
military still not in full control of
the city, and the Iraqi police force
collapsed — Iraqis believe vio
lent crimes are being committed
with impunity. Prisons are empty,
and the thousands of hardened
criminals released by Saddam
roam the streets.
U.S. officials here said they
were concerned about the overall
lack of security in Baghdad but
were not taking specific measures
to address its effects on women.
They said women would feel
safer as the overall security situa
tion improves.
In many cities outside
Baghdad, the situation is more
stable and crime does not appear
to be as big a problem. But in
Baghdad, there seems to have
been little progress in allaying the
fears of women.
Iraqi political groups operat
ing in Baghdad are receiving
regular reports from their local
constituents.
“We’ve heard very disturbing
accounts of abductions of
women,” said Qubad Talabany, a
spokesman for the Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan, an Iraqi
Kurdish group that controls about
half of northern Iraq.
With official reports scarce,
rumor is enough for most parents,
who intend to keep their daugh
ters tucked away from public life
until security is fully restored to
the city — a process that could
take months.
“We hear gunfire all the time,
and we don’t know who’s shoot
ing or why. This makes people
even more worried,” said Faiza
Mahmoud, a high school English
teacher who now commutes to
work with other teachers in her
neighborhood.
They say even
taxis aren’t safe, and
Vm scared to use
them. Should I be
using the public
buses?
— Um Omar
Iraqi mother
As with most of the troubling
facets of postwar life here, Iraqis
suspect the hidden hand of the
old regime.
“These rumors are all being
spread by the Baathists,
Mahmoud said. “They want to
disrupt everything. They don’t
want anything to be improved.”
For Um Omar, like other
mothers who want to keep their
girls in class and cannot afford a
car, that means spending each
afternoon in snarled traffic, in
taxis that often run out of gas,
picking up each of her three
daughters at their schools in dis
parate parts of the city.
“They say even taxis aren’t
safe, and I’m scared to use them.
Should I be using the public
buses? I don’t know,” she said,
eyeing the traffic warily.
The compulsion to guard
women’s honor can be so over
whelming in traditional families
that some girls are being locked
up at home even when their
Grove
schools are nearby.
Nour Hassan, 16, has spent
every day since the war confined
to a narrow apartment in stifling
heat, waiting for the two-hour
reprieve when the electricity
comes on, so she can turn on the
ceiling fan and listen to CDs.
Cut off from her friends by the
collapse of the telephone net
work, Nour’s daily life has been
reduced to a numbing routine:
breakfast, house chores, lunch,
nap, dinner. Most hours the tele
vision doesn’t work, since there is
no electricity, completing her iso
lation.
Female students at a college in
north Baghdad who successfully
battled traditional norms for a
measure of social independence
now fear it will be years before
they can regain the prewar nor
malcy of their lives.
Activities such as meeting
friends for dinner, swimming at
the local pool and study dates are
now out of the question, and the
public places where young peo
ple used to meet — cultural cen
ters or social clubs — have either
. ;(i been looted or taken over by
bands of Iraqis. They provided
rare venues for surreptitious dat
ing, an already tricky endeavor
that is now impossible for Iraqi
young people.
Zeinab, a 24-year-old com
puter science major who
declined to give her last name,
would drive her own car to col
lege before the U.S. invasion,
but now she’s only permitted to
leave the house for school with
the man she jokingly calls her
“driver-bodyguard-chaperon.”
The beauty salons she used to
frequent for pedicures and con
versation are closed, so Zeinab
spends much of her long hours at
home in front of a mirror, practic
ing different hairstyles for the day
she regains a social life.
Drill
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The Walshs lived in College
Station for 14 years and now
reside in the Denton area. Though
the school was much smaller and
mostly male, she felt comfortable
attending A&M, Jennie Walsh
said.
“I never encountered any
resistance to my being there,” she
said.
Don Walsh, Class of 1959,
received three degrees from A&M.
He attended A&M in the early
1950s, before leaving to join the
Air Force. He said the school was
small, rural and agricultural.
“(College Station) was kind of
dusty,” he said.
Though the school had grown
by the time the Walshs moved, it
was still small, with 15,000 stu
dents, Don said. A major per
centage of those students, he
said, were still in the Corps of
Cadets. He said the school now
offers many more programs than
it once did.
The Walshs said they were
amazed at how friendly the stu
dents were.
“Both my wife and me were
blown away,” Don Walsh said.
Don said the hosts took their
cars and their luggage for them.
Posters were placed in the rooms
of the Hostlers with information
and pictures of their hosts, Jennie
Walsh said. The hosts, she said,
did their jobs very well.
“I don’t know how they prepare
the students, but the way they do it
is well nigh perfect,” she said.
The Walshs did disagree on one
issue. While Don’s favorite pro
gram was a chemistry demonstra
tion, Jennie preferred a lecture by
Dr. Jim Olson.
Don said he came to the pro
gram not knowing what to expect,
but that he and current students
wound up sharing many of their
experiences and memories.
He said that he plans to e-mail
Aggie Clubs in the Denton area to
let them know about the Aggie
Hostel program.
Don and Jennie said they would
be returning.
“We’ll be back next year,”
Jennie said. “It was like coming
home, and people acted like they
missed us.”
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Israel
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and Abbas last week.
Israel will “continue to fight the heads of the
extremist terrorist organizations — those who ini
tiated, those who fund and those who send terror
ists to kill Jews,” Sharon said.
Rantisi was the most high-profile Hamas polit
ical leader to be targeted by Israel, and the vio
lence threatened a return to the spiral of attack and
retaliation that has ruined past peace plans — at a
time when both sides are just starting to imple
ment the first stages of the “road map” to peace
and a Palestinian state.
Bush “is deeply troubled by the strike,” White
House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. “The presi
dent is concerned that the strike will undermine
efforts by Palestinian authorities and others to
bring an end to terrorist attacks, and does not con
tribute to the security of Israel.”
Israel insisted Rantisi is an “arch
terrorist” whom the Palestinians
should have moved against earlier.
“He is an enemy of peace, an
enemy of everyone who seeks peace
in the Middle East,” Sharon aide i.+
Ranaan Gissin said. “We actually fight them With OUr
are saving the peace process by try
ing to take out such people.”
He accused Rantisi of plotting an
attack by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and
the A1 Aqsa Brigades on Sunday
that killed four Israeli soldiers in
Gaza. Palestinians regard Rantisi as
a leader of Hamas’ political wing,
but Israeli officials say he has been
involved in the planning and execution of attacks.
From his hospital bed, Rantisi told reporters he
was on his way to visit a sick friend when a rock
et hit his SUV. He jumped out and threw himself
on the ground as the car, driven by his son Ahmad,
crashed into a wall, he said.
The car burst into flames and was reduced to a
scorched pile of metal. One of Rantisi s body
guards and a woman bystander were killed.
Rantisi was hit by shrapnel in the leg, arm and
chest; his son, three bodyguards and 22 bystanders
also were wounded, doctors said.
Thousands of Hamas supporters crowded the
courtyard outside Shifa Hospital, chanting slogans
against Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen. “Abu
Mazen, we want resistance,” the crowded shouted.
u
I swear we will
not leave one Jew in
Palestine. We will
might
Dozens of Hamas gunmen fired assault riflesi
the air.
Some Hamas leaders said before Tuesday
strike they were considering resuming truce ti
that the group abandoned Friday. After the strife
however, Hamas threatened to resume its cans
paign of suicide attacks against Israel and
target Israeli politicians, which it has rarely dooi
in the past.
Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader, said
would be quick retaliation: “The Hamas respons;
will be like an earthquake.”
“An eye for an eye ... a politician for a
cian,” he said.
Rantisi said the deaths caused by the
“deserve retaliation. But we must all rememki
that our war is not a war of retribution. ^
resisting an occupation that has raped thelandak
sacrificed the holy sites.”
“I swear we will not leave one Jew
Palestine,” he said. “We will fifli
them with our might.”
Hamas is the largest mil
group carrying out bombings
shootings against Israelis. In i
than 90 suicide attacks s
September 2000 — most by Hi
— more than 350 people haveta
killed.
Palestinian officials, resistia
Israeli pressure to dismantle
tant groups until a cease-firetu
be worked out, have been press®!
Israel not to target militant le
or launch other crackdowns.
The road map says Israel
refrain from actions that undeni*
trust, but does not specifically rule out the t
ed killings of Palestinian militants. Israel in
ed last month it would only use targeted killings^
means of last resort to prevent attacks on Israeli
Israel was sending mixed messages with it
actions Tuesday. On the one hand, Israeli
dismantled 10 uninhabited settlement oi
in the West Bank overnight — as provided!))
the peace plan.
However, the missile strike threatened
undermine the fragile position of Abbas, v
was appointed prime minister April 30 andhai
no Palestinian support base. Abbas has beenctit
icized by Palestinians for pledging to end L
“armed intefadeh" while getting little in re
from Israel.
— Rantisi
Israeli terrorist
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Aggies having to do with going off to World War II,” Cook said, referring
to the 1943 movie, “We’ve Never Been Licked. ^
The Grove has also been the site for the “Rocky Horror Picture Show,
concerts, socials and dances. .
Cook said The Grove was a common place to hang out in College
Station, especially during the summer months.
Reynolds said that a committee would eventually be formed to determine
the final fate of the 61-year-old area, but not for at least two years.
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Station City council chambers announcing
the mock incident while members of
TEEX pretended to be reporters.
Tony Fink, an observer on the project
and a mock reporter, said most of the peo
ple involved have worked as assistants.
Some have served in city organizations
such as fire or police departments.
“We are a variety of people who come
from different walks of life,” Fink said.
Fink said it is challenging to play his
role under pressure, but that he has accu
mulated valuable experience and is more
knowledgeable on what to do during a ter
rorist attack. He said that the involvement
is gratifying and fun.
“It brings people together who
wouldn’t normally be working together,”
he said.
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