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
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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.
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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)
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