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Nation & world briefing Police examine another fatal shooting Eunice Moscoso Cox News Service ROCKVILLE, Md. — Police were investigating a fatal shooting Monday night in northern Virginia for possible connection to the sniper shootings that have left eight dead and two in jured in the Washington area. A woman was shot in the head in. parking garage of a Home Depot in cording topoHde. fnves into the sniper shootings were diately dispatched to the lice began blocking nearj and searching for a white van similar to the one that had been spotted at a previous shooting. Previous attacks have also occurred at shopping centers A customer is in tig IGentei estates 66 and 1-9$. Also Monday, Baltimore Police mer Marine with apparent similari ties to the sniper being sought in the shooting spree. Montgomery County Police said, however, that they did not believe “at this time” that the man is related In the search of the man's apart ment, police found an A-R 1$ rifle, shell casings, ammunition and a book about snipers, news reports said. Police said he was driving a white Astro van, the same type and color $ Vehicle seen at the most recent shooting in northern Virginia. Meanwhile, law enforcement offi cials in areas just outside Washing ton beefed up security at shopping malls and other facilities during the Columbus Day holiday weekend. Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose said that police have calls that such as funds to collect money for victims of the shooter. The Victims’ Rights Foundation joined a coalition of business groups who hope to raise at least #250,000 to pay for medical bills for surviving vic tims, the education of slain victims’ children and other expenses. In addition, the United Way has set up a fund to support the immedi ate and long-term needs of the vic lorities axe offering a reward >.000 for information leading and their families. K I | • r v - ; * ^ News briefs U.S.-French split on Iraq deepens UNITED NATIONS — The Im passe between the United States and France over military action in Iraq has deepened in recent days after an effort to reach a compro mise stalled, with the French in sisting that the Americans must come back to the U.N. Security Council before they can use force, diplomats said Monday. President Bush on Monday spoke in conciliatory terms of the United Nations, insisting that the negotia tions are still moving forward. “We are working with all the parties to get a resolution done,” he said at the White House on Monday as he departed for Michigan. “Anything we do must make it very clear that Saddam must dis arm, or there will be conse quences,” he added. But Bush stressed, “The use of my last choice, is my of their effort to explore Ions short of war, senior ad ministration officials said that they are trying to foment an uprising in Iraq, a strategy they had dismissed as recently as last spring. Congressional officials said that the Central Intelligence Agency had already begun covert operations in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq. And military officials said the Pen tagon planned broadcasts and leaflet-drops in coming weeks urg ing Iraqi military leaders to defect The United States and Britain want one Security Council resolu tion that includes tough new condi tions for weapons inspectors in Iraq and an authorization to use force should the Iraqis refuse to disarm. France wants any authorization to use force in a second resolution. Russia and China have leaned to the French view. —Julia Preston and Eric Schmitt, New York Times behind attack in BaSi, Al likely officials say BALI, Indonesia—With the grim task of identifying charred and mangled bodies barely underway, Indonesia’s defense minister on Monday blamed Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network for this weekend’s bombing that killed more than .180 people, including two Americans, and injured more than 300. al-Qaida, with the cooperation of lo cal terrorists,” Matori Abdul Djalil told reporters after a cabinet meet ing in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital. Three Americans are also listed among the injured in the attack. U.S. officials have not released iden tities of the Americans. Djalil offered no evidence that al-Qaida was behind the car bomb ing Saturday night that turned a crowded Kuta Beach nightclub into an inferno in the world’s most pop ulous Muslim nation. Most of the dead are foreigners. The Bali Qaida,” he told reporters at the White House. ■— Michael Dorgan and Jonathan S. Landay, Knight Rkhler Awsp« pers(KRT) Bali bombing may raise questions on Bush’s targeting Iraq 1 WASHINGTON — While the White House prefers to focus on Iraq and the clear threat the Bush administration insists that Saddam Hussein poses, the accelerating se ries of worldwide terrorist attacks is wrenching the administration’s em phasis back to the unfinished and amorphous war against al-Qaida. The weekend bombing outside a nightclub in Indonesia and other recent attacks, presumed to be the work of al-Qaida, are adding new credence to administration critics who contend that the White House has been imperiling the war against al-Qaida terror cells by shifting the worlds attention and the nation’s resources to a poten tial war against Iraq. “Al-Qaida is proving that their ca pacity is unlimited and they can go anywhere, yet we have our presi dent focused completely on Iraq, which is almost a sideshow to what al-Qaida is doing,” said Youssef Ibrahim, an expert on Iraq at the Council on Foreign Relations. “If al Qaida has proved anything in the past three days, it is that we are very far away from having won the war on terror.” President Bush agreed with at least part of that sentiment Monday, saying that “It’s going to take a while to succeed,” but he also wanted that Hussein might use al Qaida to “do his dirty work,” and that ridding Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction is just as integral a part of the war on terrorism as pur suing al-Qaida. — Howard Witt, Chicago Tribune (KRT) Today is the last day to register to vote! 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