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Jazz, Hip Hop & Ballet Aggie Dance Team Try-Out Prep Classes Now Enrolling 690-1813 Jennifer Hart Director of the Texas A & M Aggie Dance Team Wednesday, January 21, 2004 W0RI THE BATTALIOI Israeli demolition crews move on West Bank synagogue, Gaza mosque Steve Weizman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Israeli troops tore down part of a syna gogue at a West Bank settlement outpost Tuesday but made no attempt to move adjacent trailer homes, prompting accusations the government isn’t serious about meeting U.S. demands to dismantle dozens of the out lawed sites. Demolition on a far greater scale took place in the Gaza Strip, where army bulldozers smashed 25 houses and flattened a mosque in a Palestinian refugee camp, leaving 400 peo ple homeless, local officials said. The military said it targeted buildings from which shots were fired at Israeli forces, but did not know how many struc tures were demolished. Also on Tuesday, Israeli planes attacked two Hezbollah guerrilla bases in south Lebanon, the Israeli military said. There were no reports of casualties, Lebanese security officials said. The evening airstrike fol lowed a border incident Monday, in which Hezbollah guerrillas fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli bulldozer clearing explo sives, killing an Israeli soldier and seriously wounding another. At the West Bank outpost of Tapuah West, about 150 Jewish activists put up token resistance against hundreds of soldiers and riot police, burning tires and erecting flimsy barricades of stones on the road leading to the isolated hilltop. It was the first move by the army to clear a structure from a populated outpost since June, when soldiers and police got into a bloody fistfight with settlers as they tried to dismantle shacks and tents at Mitzpeh Yitzhar, another West Bank outpost. The wooden synagogue and study center at Tapuah West was dedicated to the memory and teachings of American-Israeli Meir Kahane, whose anti-Arab Kach movement is on the State Department list of terror organi zations and has been outlawed as racist by the Israeli government. Kahane was assassinated by an Egyptian in New York in 1990. Supporters of the Kahane memorial project watched angri ly as soldiers wrestled a large metal safe-like object onto the blade of an armored bulldozer. They said the strongbox con tained a Torah scroll, a hand- scripted copy of the Old Testament that is a holy object to Jews. The army could neither confirm nor deny that a Torah scroll was inside the box. A man in a knitted skullcap who gave his name as “Arieh” wept as the bulldozer backed away. “When Jews take a Torah scroll from a synagogue, the state of Israel will fall apart,” he shouted. Three soldiers were slightly injured and 14 settlers were arrested in scuffles at the scene. Army Radio reported. Critics of Tuesday’s opera tion, which was played out before TV cameramen, photog raphers and reporters, said it was a meaningless display. After similar army raids in the past, settlers simply rebuilt demolished structures after soldiers left. “You really need a micro scope to see the differences before and after,” said Dror Etkes of Peace Now, an Israeli group that monitors settlement expansion. “A few days later, everything is back in place.” Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has ordered several outposts demolished. Under the U.S.-backed “road map” peace plan, Israel is required to remove dozens of outposts, but so far has taken down only a few. The Palestinians also have failed to meet their first obliga tions, including a clampdown on militants. Shortly before sundown Tuesday, most of the Jewish activists and the soldiers were gone, leaving the synagogue a skeleton with only a few uprights supporting its green, gabled roof. A police officer said demolition would be completed Wednesday. In Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp, the pace was markedly different. As the Israeli bulldozers went to work, frantic residents threw mattresses and blankets from second-floor windows as ceil ings and walls come crashing down around them. One woman, standing just feet from a bulldoz er, waved a white flag in a failed attempt to slow the demolition and salvage belongings. A cry ing girl helped her mother carry a mattress. The governor of Rafah. Majed Agha. said about 400 peo ple were made homeless Tuesday. Palestinian human rights workers said 17 houses were destroyed and another eight badly damaged. Agha initially SOURCES Ax>CQMtiodPT«M;ESn put the number of demob buildings at 30. Israel has demolished ti dreds of houses in Rz near the Egyptian horde more than three yean fighting, saying the buil gave cover to gunmen weapons smugglers. Also razed Tuesday ** neighborhood mosque, Taw hid, which had been pr„ In demolished Saturday dents said. The mosque is ah 70 yards from an Israeli p®f road. "This is a crime ip God's law and human lat well.” said preacher Ibii Abu Jazar. The military' said it was checking the report of mosque demolition. In the three years, troops have ly stayed clear of holy sites. A NEWS IN BRIEF Iraqi Governing Council could take over powers from coalition Iran seen dragging feet on key assurance of nuclear intentions Israeli warplanes attack southern Lebanon after guerrillas kill soldier i BAGHDAD, Iraq — If an influential Shiite cleric sticks to his demand for early leg islative elections, then the coalition may turn sovereignty over to the U.S.-appoint ed Iraqi Governing Council, coalition and Iraqi officials said Tuesday. One top Iraqi official said the cleric would accept a transfer of power to the Governing Council as a way out of the standoff. Transferring power to the Governing Council was among options under study if the United Nations fails to convince Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani that early elections are not feasible, coalition officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Publicly, coalition officials have insisted the best way to choose the transitional legislature is by 18 regional caucuses. U.S. officials hope to convince al-Sistani that a legislature chosen by caucuses would have greater legitimacy than the Governing Council. VIENNA, Austria — Western diplomats and nuclear experts voiced growing con cern Tuesday that Iran has reneged on its promise to fully suspend uranium enrich ment — a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons. Worries over Tehran’s nuclear intentions coincided with decreased concern among nuclear watchdogs about Libya's nuclear ambitions. Tripoli volunteered last month to give up chemical, biological and nuclear weapons or weapons programs. Disarmament teams are in Libya to start dismantling the country’s weapons of mass destruction, and diplomats say the North African country apparently was sincere in its vow to disarm. The most recent developments threaten, therefore, to put Iran at center stage at the next top-level meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in March. Tehran announced it had suspended uranium enrichment late last year as it sought to blunt international concern and to defang U.S. attempts to gain U.N. Security Council involvement. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli warplat struck Hezbollah guerrilla bases in soil ern Lebanon late Tuesday, threatening) re-ignite another Arab-lsraeli front fi has been mostly calm for years. Israel said it was retaliating fotl Hezbollah attack that killed one Israeli* dier and wounded another a day eart* and said the attacks were intended message to Syria, the main power br in Lebanon. The United States blamed Hezbo# guerrillas for the escalation and caution| Syria against giving support to Lebanese militant group. There was no word on casualties the airstrikes in a valley six miles northi the Israeli border near the Mediterranet, coast, Lebanese security officials said | One target, a Hezbollah training pof tion, took a direct missile hit and r sound of exploding ammunition washes' in the area, the officials said. They ss they couldn’t determine the extent of da' age because of the remote location. I I l l l l I I l l l l I l I l l l l I I l WELCOME BACK AGS!! THE NEW A HOME OF $1 DRINKS PRESENTS... FREE MEAL ON US! HOW, YOU ASK! 1. Rip out this coupon 2. Grab a friend 3. Get your #@?/ down to THE NEW HOME OF $1 DRINKS.... 4. Buy one get one FREE ENTREE only valid until the end of January 2004 5. 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