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Silver Taps dat rescheduled noise f poumion 89 JOSH OflRUJin This month's Silver Tai be held next Tuesday, at 10:30 p.m. instead of due to the start of class week. Ceremonies ty take place on the first Tt> of every other month. Wayne Robley Nalls Ann Snell and George W< Cartwright will be remei at next week’s ceremony IT WAS UKE I PIPWT KNOW WHAT \ WAS DOlNCi AND NOTHING WAP AnY REAL MEAMWJG. Israeli commissic criticizes police treatment of Arab citizens raz. y J al<e By Mou^e BY: HILL LL0Y? JERUSALEM (AP) - groundbreaking Israeli corr sion of inquiry found p: used excessive force in pue Arab nots three years age? said in a stinging rec released Monday thai * Jewish state has systematic neglected its Arab minority The document — the pmi of three years of invest^: — was based on the testr: of 377 witnesses and om • fifth probe of such scok Israel’s history. The panel’s findings car?: Israeli-Palestinian vkiie- flared anew Monday. An Israeli helicopter fcl missiles at a car carrying?* Hamas militants in Gaza; killing one and wove another.Twenty-five bystr:- also were hurt in the r Israeli missile strike ip' weeks. In the West Bankc Nablus, soldiers shot and: cally wounded a 15-yea boy after a firebomb set: tank on fire. The panel of two judges an academic urged thegoss ment to come up wit detailed plan for narrowing' gaps between Jews and m citizens, who make up aL one-fifth of the populatio" 6.6 million people. Bombing Continued from page 1A were present Monday throughout Najaf, the country’s holiest Shiite city, with 400 police preparing to take up positions around the mosque. U.S. forces could not be seen in the city proper and were believed manning checkpoints on roads into Najaf. Some Iraqi police officials leading the investigation of the bombing have said they believe al-Qaida linked Islamic militants were behind the attack — not Saddam loyalists. The FBI said it would help investigate the bomb ing after receiving a request from local officials. Also Monday, Iraq’s 25- member Governing Council announced a Cabinet, which mirrored exactly the council’s ethnic and religious breakdown with 13 Shiites, five Sunni Arabs, five Kurds (also Sunnis), one ethnic Turk and an Assyrian Christian. The new Foreign Minister will be Hoshyar Zebari, a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party. The key Oil Ministry will be headed by Ibrahim Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum, the son of Governing Council member Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum. who on Saturday suspended his mem bership in the interim body because of the lack of security in the country and what he saw as the American’s inability to pro tect prominent figures. The elder Bahr al-Uloum cited the Najaf bombing. L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civil ian administrator for Iraq, has said an election for a new ewer ment could take place as early Ur- end of 2004 alter the adopt) of a new constitution. Iraqi police said the Nay bomb that exploded after no: prayers Friday contained tf| equivalent of 1,650 pounds TNT. They say the 19 susp:: arrested so far may have link- al-Qaida. The death toll stood at u I w ith 142 wounded, some seno. ly, said Maj Rick N. spokesman for the 1st Banal 7th Marines. 2001-2003 Best of the Brazos Valley Winner! FAA Approved Flight School Private - Advance Training Aircraft Rental Available VA Eligible Benefits Pilot Shop AVIATION m CAREER TRACKS COLLEGE STATION A/ Easter wood Airport While working on | your college degree j I I — accomplish your pilot's certificates at ; the same time. 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