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Wednesday, June 16, 2004
WORli
THE BATTALli
Rioting breaks out
after car bombing
kills 10 in Baghda
By Tom Lasseter
KRT CAMPUS
KHAMPHA BOUAPHANH • KRT CAMPUS
Iraqis set an SUV on fire after U.S. troops pulled back at the scene
where a car bomb detonated during rush hour as a convoy of three
SUVs passed near Tahrir Square, in central Baghdad, on Monday.
Soldiers wearing riot gear were later sent in to stabilize the scene. At
least 10 people were killed, including five contract workers, and as
many as 60 people were injured in the attack.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - In some
of the worst rioting since
Baghdad fell last year, hundreds
of Iraqis threw stones at U.S.
soldiers, burned an American
flag, danced around the charred
body of a foreign contractor and
looted a handful of stores
Monday in downtown Baghdad.
The outburst of rage came
after a suicide car bomber
crashed into a convoy of three
sport utility vehicles carrying
Westerners just after 8 a.m.,
killing at least 10 Iraqis and
wounding more than 50,
according to doctors at three
hospitals. There were five for
eigners killed and three wound
ed in the blasts.
A General Electric spokes
woman confirmed that the five
dead comprised three employ
ees of Granite Services _ a GE
company _ and two security
workers. Officials in Baghdad
said that among the five were
two Britons, two Americans
and a Frenchman.
The front side of a two-
story building that contained
shops and apartments was left
)o lec
in rubble, and at least seil
cars were charred and blas!iP a y 5
by shrapnel. Ji ne
There have been at least I the p
car bombings in Iraq sofan« n ter.
month. And while such bonj
ings once commonly targeJ
buildings such as U.S. mill| )ne<:
bases and Iraqi police stato|| ea di
recently there have been seveljhe fi
kamikaze-like strikes at conn
of Iraqi police. Western contt
tors and coalition soldiers.
The violence comes asi
country is counting down!
days to June 30, when t
officials will hand oversow
eignty to a recently form
Iraqi government.
“It is an unfortunate j
cowardly incident that hi
pc tied today,” Prime Minis
lyad Allawi said. “Fivech
ians have been killed
another three civilians sevei
ly injured. These people I
been helping Iraq to rebuilt M( rket
power stations and recorotrljL M
its electricity and power Hl |
eration. Additionally, a mfl.
ber of Iraqis have beenal
killed and injured. WedeplJ
this terrorist act and vow to:®'
the criminals to justice as sol 5
as possible.”
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Government refuses to create do-not-spam
list, says it might make problem
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration said Tuesday it
will not create a national do-not-spam registry to discourage
unwanted e-mail, fearing it could backfire and become a target list
for new victims.
The Federal Trade Commission told Congress that senders of unwant
ed sales pitches might mine such a registry for names. Its chairman,
Timothy Muris, quipped that consumers “will be spammed if we do a
registry and spammed if we do not.”
The commission was obligated by lawmakers to consider the proposal
under the “can spam” legislation that Bush signed in December, an idea
patterned after the FTC's enormously successful do-not-call registry to
limit telemarketing calls.
But the FTC concluded that on the Internet, unlike within the highly
regulated U.S. telephone network, regulators would be “largely power
less to identify those responsible for misusing the registry.”
Vatican: Not as many victims of
Inquisition as commonly believed
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Torture, burning at the stake and other punish
ment for the faithful condemned as witches or heretics by church tri
bunals during the Inquisition was not as widespread as comm
believed, the Vatican said Tuesday.
Pope John Paul II praised the research, recalling that in 2000,
church asked pardon for “errors committed in the service of thetrt
through recourse to non-evangelical methods.”
In 2000, John Paul apologized for the sins of Roman Catho;
made in the name of their faith, including abuses during
Inquisition, a systematic crackdown by church officials todefendc
trinal orthodoxy.
Catholics suspected of being heretics, witches or others consider
dubious faith, including Muslims and Jews who had converted
Catholicism, were among the targets.
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