News brief
Sources say NSA intercepted
pre-Sept. 11 calls
WASHINGTON—A secretive U.S.
eavesdropping agency monitored
telephone conversations before Sept.
11 between the suspected command
er of the World Trade Center and Pen
tagon attacks and the alleged chief hi
jacker, but did not share the
information with other intelligence
agencies, U.S. officials said Thursday.
The officials, speaking on condition
of anonymity, said the conversations
between Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
and Mohammed Atta were intercept
ed by the National Security Agency, an
intelligence agency that monitors and
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decodes foreign communications.
The officials declined to disclose the
nature of the discussions between Mo
hammed, a known leader of the al
Qaeda network who is on the FBI’s
Most Wanted Terrorists list, and Atta,
who piloted one of the planes that hit
the World Trade Center. Mohammed is
believed to be hiding in Pakistan.
Another intelligence official,
speaking on condition of anonymity,
said it was “simply not true” that the
NSA monitored the conversations
and failed to share the information
with other intelligence agencies.
An NSA spokeswoman said that
as a rule “we neither confirm or deny
actual or alleged intelligence opera
tions.” She declined to say more.
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“just say no” message and instead
sought to educate students about
how to party safely, said Laura
Blake Jones, director of student
life at the University.
Often working with EPD, the
University has produced fliers, ran
advertisements, made posters,
hosted informational events and
talked to students in residence
halls and neighborhoods, she said.
Police focus on party hosts
The Eugene City Council ap
proved the centerpiece of the
EPD’s new party-control approach
last year when it implemented the
special response fee ordinance.
Under the ordinance, residents
cited are forced to repay the city
the cost of police responses to dis
orderly parties after the second po
lice response to an address within
90 days, where at least 25 people
are gathered and at least two cita
tions are issued. The bill could be
as high as $1,500.
The intent of this ordinance,
Roberts said, is “to make sure that
the people ultimately responsible
for repeated police responses to
disorderly parties are responsible
for the resources.”
Since the ordinance was ap
proved, 29 locations received
warnings stating that police would
issue the special response fee the
next time they respond to a party
at the address. Police have yet to
issue the response fee.
The fact that none of the 29 loca
tions have required a second po
lice response indicates that the
policy has been a successful deter
rent, Aguilar said.
“People have noticed that there
is an enforcement, that it stings
and that they want to avoid it,” he
said. “The people who habitually
threw big parties, the people who
got good at throwing big parties,
don’t do it any more.”
Furthermore, Aguilar said the
new policy has improved relations
between police and students.
“It’s a little more respectable to
the student body and less con
frontational,” he said.
The June 1 riot near campus,
however, was a shocking reminder
of the alcohol-fueled student riots
of 1997 and 1998, which spurred
the EPD’s zero-tolerance policy
and the Party Patrol.
About 500 people attending
parties at 17th Avenue and Patter
son Street spilled into the streets
that night and began a riot that
persisted until every EPD officer
on duty and about 20 officers
from other police agencies fired
tear gas, arrested 11 people and
chased everybody else off the
streets. Roberts said he hoped the
incident was a fluke.
“It’s a reminder that these things
can be spontaneous and that we
must be diligent, be out there and
make connections before parties
get started,” he said.
When the Party Patrol was on
duty, officers would check Oregon
Liquor Control Commission
records, discover where kegs were
on any given weekend and contact
residents before parties began,
Roberts said.
Officers would remind residents
of the law and advise them to con
tact police if they began to lose
control over the party. This,
Roberts said, is the most successful
way to prevent disorderly parties,
but the EPD lacks the money and
personnel to do this.
“We have to have people work
overtime just to maintain mink
mum staffing,” he said.
Critics of response fee
reconsider
Still, Aguilar said he thinks the
EPD’s focus on party hosts is the
best way for the department to
manage partying with the funds
available.
Whereas the Party Patrol would
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respond to a disorderly gathering
with half a dozen officers, shut
down the event and cite everybody
they could, police now operate in
smaller numbers and spend less
time at an unruly party, he said.
Officers arriving at a party now
seek mainly to establish the condi
tions needed to justify a special re
sponse fee warning, conditions in
cluding a minimum of 25 people
present and two citations, he said.
When the special response fee
ordinance first passed, however,
student leaders feared that it
would be enforced in conjunction
with the Party Patrol, would
cause a jump in alcohol citations
and would create a significant fi
nancial drain for students who
got caught.
ASUO members spoke numer
ous times before the Eugene Police
Commission and City Council
while the ordinance was drafted
last year and recommended revi
sions, some of which directly influ
enced the final language of the law.
Christa Shively, the ASUO com
munity outreach director at the
time, said that the potential ad
verse effects of the ordinance were
mitigated by the disbanding of the
Party Patrol.
She said she has heard no com
plaints from students who felt they
were targeted by the special re
sponse fee, and current ASUO
members also said they have re
ceived no complaints.
City Councilor David Kelly, who
represents the University area, said
he, too, was unaware of any com
plaints from students.
“There is some indication that
the ordinance may have resulted in
less situations that may have gotten
completely out of hand, and it has
been used sparingly, which is
good,” he said. “Based on what I’ve
heard, which is not a lot, it’s been
less negative than was feared.”
E-mail community editor Darren Freeman
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