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WORLt
THE BATTALIOS
Muhammad to represent sel
in D.C. sniper shooting trial
By Matthew Barakat
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. —
Sniper suspect John Allen
Muhammad won the right to
serve as his own lawyer Monday
in a surprise, last-minute request
at his murder trial. He broke a
year of stony silence by proclaim
ing his innocence in a rambling
opening statement and asking a
wimess: “Have you ever seen me
shoot anyone?”
It was not clear why
Muhammad decided to fire his
lawyers, who will serve as stand
by counsel in the first trial to
come out of last year’s sniper
spree. Just last week, Muhammad
told the judge that he was satis
fied with his attorneys.
Muhammad’s decision to rep
resent himself in the death penal
ty case means he could end up
cross-examining his accusers,
perhaps survivors of the shoot
ings.
In his 20-minute opening
statement, Muhammad said noth
ing about the shootings except to
deny involvement.
“I know what happened. I
know what didn’t happen.
They’re basing what they said
about me on a theory. If we mon
itor (the evidence) step by step, it
will all show I had nothing to do
with these crimes,” he told the
jury.
Muhammad, 42, is charged in
the slaying of Dean Harold
Meyers, a 53-year-old Vietnam
veteran who was gunned down
outside a northern Virginia gas
station last October. He was the
seventh victim in a three-week
shooting spree that left 10 people
dead in Virginia, Maryland and
Washington, D.C.
Muhammad and Lee Boyd
Malvo, 18, were arrested last Oct.
24 at a highway rest stop in
Maryland.
Prosecutors have
said the shootings
were part of a plot
to extort $10 mil
lion from the gov
ernment.
Malvo was in the
courtroom for about
two minutes
Monday to allow a
prosecution witness
to identify him.
Prosecutors say
Malvo has made
several statements
to police and jail
guards in which he confessed
involvement in many of the
If we monitor
(the evidence) step
by step, it will all
show I had nothing
to do with these
crimes
“There’s three truths. It
truth, the whole truth andnolti;
but the truth. I always thoujt!
there was just one truth,”hesail
“The facts should help us id*
fy what’s a lie, what’s notalie,"
He also spoke about his cl
dren, whom he said he “low
very much.”
He said he once punished I
daughter for eating chocolas
cookies, onlyi
find out latent;
the daughter hai
not disobeyes
him. Simila
he said, he
being persecuted
by authorities
who do not knw
the truth behind
the sniper spree.
Muhammad
asked thejuiyu
pay close atten
tion to the facts
because “my I
and my son’s 1
John Allen Muhammad
defendant
attacks. But Muhammad barely
spoke to investigators, and
offered only terse, one-word
answers to questions in many pre
trial hearings.
Muhammad spoke at length
during his opening statement
about the nature of truth, saying
at one point, “Jesus said, ‘Ye
shall know the truth.’” He also
said he hopes to be found inno
cent “by the grace of Allah.”
is on the line,” apparently a refer
ence to Malvo. Muhammad and
Malvo, 18, are not related, ta
have referred to each others
father and son.
Later, a Manassas bant
employee, Linda Thompson,
testified she saw Muhammad
and Malvo outside her bank,
near the shooting scene, short
ly before Meyers was killed
Prosecutors brought in Malvo,
in an orange jumpsuit, for tie
woman to identify.
Report: Princess Diana
feared plot for her life
NEWS IN BRIEF
Bush administration
condems Malaysian
prime minister
By Audry Woods
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — A letter report
edly written by Princess Diana
expressing fears that someone
was plotting to eliminate her by
tampering with the brakes of her
car brought the painful story of
her death back to the front pages
Monday and prompted a call for
a public inquiry.
The Mirror tabloid said
Diana wrote the letter to her
butler Paul Burrell in October
1996 — some 11 months
before the Paris car crash that
killed the princess, her com
panion Dodi Fayed and the
car’s driver, Henri Paul.
Fayed’s father, Mohammed
al Fayed — who has long con
tended the crash was part of a
plot to kill the couple and not
accident — called on Prime
Minister Tony Blair to hold a
full and independent public
inquiry or stand accused of col
luding in a cover-up.
The letter confirmed “the
suspicions 1 have so often
voiced in public and which have
thus far been ignored,” al Fayed,
the owner of Harrods depart
ment store, said in a statement.
A French judge has ruled that
the driver’s use of drugs and
alcohol and the car’s high speed
caused the accident Aug. 31,
1997 in a Paris road tunnel.
There has never been an inquiry
in Britain. A Surrey county
coroner said in August he would
hold an inquest into Dodi
Fayed’s death, but no date has
been set for it. Buckingham
Palace has said there will even
tually be a British investigation
of Diana’s death, since the law
requires one, but no date has
been announced.
The letter was included in
excerpts from Burrell’s forth
coming book “A Royal Duty,”
published Monday in the
Mirror. The paper printed a
photograph of part of the letter.
The excerpts quoted the
princess as writing to Burrell
that “this particular phase in
my life is the most dangerous.”
She reportedly wrote that
someone was planning “an
accident in my car, brake fail
ure and serious head injury in
order to make the path clear for
Charles to marry.”
The newspaper said Diana
named the person she believed
was plotting against her but that
it could not reveal the identity
for fear of a lawsuit. The name
was blacked out in the photo of
the letter.
The Mirror quoted Burrell
as saying that in the letter
containing the allegation she
told him, “I’m going to date
this and I want you to keep it
... just in case.”
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BANGKOK, Thailand
The White House on
condemned Malaysian
Minister Mahathir Mohamafi
statement that Jews rule k
world, inserting President
Bush into a simmering contro
versy at an international eco
nomic meeting.
Bush’s national security
adviser, Condoleezza Rice,
signaled the president’s disap
proval shortly before he sat
down in the same room with
Mahathir and 19 other
to open the Asia-I
Economic Cooperation
mit. It is the last of the
forums that Mahathir will
attend before retiring Oct. 31
after 22 years in power.
Mahathir, Asia’s senioi
statesman in Asia whose pug
nacious, articulate speeches
against globalization and U.S.
policy in the Middle East have
a strong following, triggered an
uproar last week at a summitol
Islamic countries by stating
that “Jews rule the world by
proxy. They get others to figh!
and die for them.”
The thrust of his address was
that the world’s 1.3 billion
Muslims had been outmaneu-
vered by “a few million Jews”and
needed to give up violence in
favor of using greater unity and
improved education to
their interests peacefully.
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