Guerilla group kidnaps Israelis
1 BEIRUT, Lebanon — The mili
tant Islamic group Hezbollah
claimed Sunday it had captured an
Israeli colonel, prompting a warn
ing from Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak that Israel would
“know how to respond” to the kid
napping of one its citizens.
Israel confirmed that an Israeli
who served in the army reserves
had been kidnapped while in Eu
rope, but did not provide details or
confirm that the captive was in
Hezbollah’s hands.
The guerrilla group is already
holding three Israeli soldiers it
snatched from along the Israeli
Lebanese border. The new kidnap
ping threatened to heighten ten
sions on the eve of a summit in
Egypt called to stop Palestinian-Is
r
raeli hostilities.
“Israel will know how to re
spond, to identify who is behind
this and to take care of this later,”
Barak said in a statement. He did
not indicate what type of action Is
rael might take.
Barak said the man’s only con
nection to the military was his serv
ice as a reserve army officer, “like
tens of thousands of other citizens
in the country.” The victim “appar
ently was enticed to some place in
Europe ... and was kidnapped from
there.”
The Israeli media said an Israeli
man named Elhanan Tannenbaum
was recently abducted in Europe.
Television networks quoted
unidentified officials as saying the
victim was a 56-year-old business
man taken while working on a deal
in Europe and flown to Lebanon.
Israeli security officials, speaking
on condition of anonymity, said the
kidnapping took place in Switzer
land. Swiss federal police
spokesman Rolf Debrunner said
police were investigating.
Marchers protest poverty
2 WASHINGTON — Thousands
of chanting women marched on
Sunday through downtown past
the World Bank and the Interna
tional Monetary Fund in a protest
against world poverty and the mis
treatment of women.
Marchers, whose circular route
began on the grassy Ellipse across
from the White House, chanted in a
cacophony of languages their sup
port for equal rights for women and
their opposition to domestic vio
lence.
Demonstrators shouted
“Shame!” as they passed the side
by-side buildings of the IMF and
the World Bank, the main lending
institutions for poor countries. Ac
tivists in a major new movement
against globally based economics
contend the institutions’ lending
policies unfairly discriminate
against the poor.
Some women got into a shouting
match with four men protesting the
event with anti-gay and anti-les
bian placards in front of the World
Bank. “Submit to your husbands,
you rebels,” Ruben Israel, 36, of Los
Angeles, yelled at the marchers
through a bullhorn.
The Washington rally, which
brought women from around the
world, was a culminating event of
the World March of Women 2000,
which began in March in Geneva.
Saudi Arabian flight hijacked
3 BAGHDAD, Iraq — They had
been in the air only two hours
when first class passengers noticed
a flight attendant emerge from the
cockpit with tears in her eyes. Pas
sengers became more concerned
when the “fasten seat belts” warn
ing light failed to go off and the
monitor tracking their flight went
blank.
London-bound Saudi Arabian
Airlines Flight 115 had been hi
jacked.
But passengers weren’t told this
while they were in the air, and the
crew remained so calm that some
passengers learned of it only after
the plane landed in Baghdad late
Saturday after a 7 1/2-hour odyssey
that began in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.
“I first thought we landed at
Heathrow in London. But when I
looked through the window I said
to myself, ‘This is not London,’”
said Iqbal Dawood from Pakistan,
one of the 103 passengers and crew
on the flight.
Half an hour after landing, the
captain announced that the plane
had been hijacked and that negotia
tions were under way.
The two hijacking suspects sur
rendered without incident in Bagh
dad.Students accused of selling Net
access
Rain gushes through Alps
4 SION, Switzerland — Land
slides crushed homes and
flood-swollen rivers swept through
towns in the Alps on Sunday,
killing at least eight people in Italy
and Switzerland. More than a
dozen others were missing and
feared dead.
Heavy rains pounded the Alpine
regions, shutting down rail lines
and roads and washing away some
bridges. Twenty-four inches of rain
have fallen in two days.
Helicopters worked throughout
the day to ferry out residents of cut
off villages as authorities evacuated
at least 3,000 people from Italy’s
Valle d’Aosta and Piedmont re
gions.
In Switzerland, after delays over
fears of new landslides, rescue
workers resumed their search Sun
day for 13 missing after a mudslide
destroyed nearly a third of the tiny
town of Gondo on Saturday morn
ing. But police said there was little
hope for survivors.
“We don’t know whether they
were in the village or not at the time
of the disaster,’’ Valais canton
(state) police spokesman Markus
Rieder said. “But it must be feared
that they died.”
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