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IN BRIEF
Senior Hamas operative
killed in car bombing
DAMASCUS, Syria — In a hit
claimed by Israeli security officials,
a senior Hamas operative was killed
in a car bombing Sunday outside his
house in Damascus. It was the first
such killing of a leader of the Islam
ic militant group in Syria. Izz Eldine
Subhi Sheik Khalil, 42, died instant
ly in the explosion, which wounded
three bystanders. Witnesses said he
was speaking on his mobile phone
as he put his white Mitsubishi SUV
in reverse before it exploded about
10 yards from his home.
Fourth hurricane ravages
Florida, leaves six dead
HUTCHINSON ISLAND, Fla. —
Jeanne, Florida's fourth hurricane
in six weeks, piled on destruction in
already ravaged areas Sunday, slic
ing across the state with howling
wind that rocketed debris from ear
lier storms and torrents of rain that
turned streets into rivers. At least
six people died in the storm, a cruel
rerun for many still trying to recover
from earlier hurricanes. Jeanne
came ashore in the same area hit
three weeks ago by Hurricane
Frances and was headed for the
Panhandle, where 70,000 homes
and businesses remained without
power because of Hurricane Ivan 10
days earlier.
Mount St. Helens quakes
signal possible eruption
SEATTLE — A strengthening
series of earthquakes at Mount St.
Helens prompted seismologists Sun
day to warn that the once-devastat
ing volcano may see a small explo
sion soon. The U.S. Geological
Survey issued a notice of volcanic
unrest in response to the swarm
of hundreds of earthquakes that be
gan Thursday.
| Initially, hundreds of tiny earth
: quakes that began Thursday morning
had slowly declined through Satur
day. By Sunday, however, there had
• been more than 10 temblors of mag
nitude 2.0 to 2.8, the most in a 24
hour period since the last dome
> building eruption in October 1986.
, Mount St. Helens is about 55 miles
I northeast of Portland.
u.o. limitary main rate
in Iraq nears 1,050
Friday, 1,042 members of the U.S.
military have died since the begin
ning of the Iraq war in March 2003,
according to the Defense Depart
ment. Of those, 792 died as a result
of hostile action and 250 died of
non-hostile causes. The figures in
clude three military civilians. The
department did not provide an up
date over the weekend.
The British military has reported
65 deaths: Italy, 19; Poland,
13; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine,
eight; Slovakia, three; Thailand,
two; the Netherlands, two; and
ODenmark, El Salvador, Estonia,
Hungary and Latvia have reported
one death each.
Since May 1, 2003, when Presi
dent Bush declared that major com
bat operations in Iraq had ended,
904 U.S. military members have
died - 683 as a result of hostile ac
tion and 221 of non-hostile causes,
according to the military's numbers
as of Friday.
The Associated Press
Oregon soldier
killed in ambush,
embassy shaken
Also, car blasts kill Iraqi guardsmen and wound
American troops in a weekend of Iraq violence
BY FISNIK ABRASHI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq. — A soldier from
the Portland area was killed in a
roadside explosion, Maj. Arnold
Strong of the Oregon Army National
Guard said.
Sgt. David Wayne Johnson, 37, of
Sandy died on Saturday morning
northwest of Baghdad. He was a
gunner on a Humvee, the last in a
convoy, Strong said.
T\vo other guardsmen suffered mi
nor injuries in the explosion and re
turned to duty, Strong said.
Johnson, who was promoted from
specialist after his death, joined the
Guard following the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks. Strong said Johnson was an
amateur motorcycle racer who, be
fore enlisting, had orange dreadlocks
flowing down his back.
Johnson's family declined inter
view requests late Sunday.
Johnson, who was scheduled to
return home next spring, was the
third Oregon National Guard soldier
to die in two weeks and the eighth in
less than four months. He was the
oldest of those killed.
Roughly 750 members of the Ore
gon National Guard are stationed in
Iraq. The number will increase to
about 1,400 in two months, Strong
said.
On Monday a car bomb exploded
in the northeastern city of Mosul as
an Iraqi National Guard patrol was
passing by, killing at least four
guardsmen and wounding three oth
ers, police said.
At least three vehicles were dam
aged in the blast, witnesses said.
Police Capt. Mushtaq Abdul
Karim said the explosion killed at
least four guardsmen, wounded
three others and hurt a civilian.
Additionally, two car bombs
wounded American and Iraqi troops
west of the capital Sunday and a few
hours later the U.S. military an
nounced the arrest of a senior Iraqi
National Guard commander on sus
picion of ties to insurgents, under
scoring the challenges to building a
strong Iraq security service capable
of restoring stability.
The two attackers who died in the
twin blasts tried to ram their cars into
a National Guard base in Kharma, a
town on the outskirts of the insur
gent stronghold of Fallujah, a U.S.
military official said on condition of
anonymity.
The number of U.S. and Iraqi ca
sualties was not immediately clear,
but a statement from the U.S.
Marines said there were no serious
injuries among American troops at
the base.
The National Guard is the center
piece of U.S. plans to turn over secu
rity responsibilities after elections
slated for January and guardsmen
have been repeatedly targeted. Mili
tants waging a 17-month insurgency
have repeatedly targeted Iraqi police
and guardsmen in an effort to thwart
U.S.-backed efforts to build a strong
Iraqi security force capable of restor
ing stability.
But the threat may not only come
from outside the force. Guard Brig.
Gen. Talib al-Lahibi, who previously
served as an infantry officer in Sad
dam Hussein's army, was detained
Thursday in the province of Diyala,
northeast of Baghdad, a U.S. military
statement announced.
The statement provided no details,
but said he was suspected of having
links to militants. Al-Lahibi was the
acting head of the Iraqi National
Guard for Diyala province, said Maj.
Neal O'Brien, spokesman for the U.S.
Army's 1st Infantry Division.
In other violence Sunday, U.S.
troops and insurgents traded fire in
Ramadi, west of Baghdad, resulting
in at least three dead and four
wounded, witnesses and hospital of
ficials said. Insurgents fired mortar
rounds and rockets at two U.S. posi
tions west and east of the city, and
U.S. forces responded with shelling,
striking a house in a Tamim neigh
borhood, witnesses said.
A rocket slammed into a busy
Baghdad neighborhood, killing at
least one person and wounding
eight, hospital officials and witness
es said.
Hours after the attack, another
loud blast shook the area near the
Green Zone, site of the U.S. Embassy
and the interim Iraqi government.
Smoke rose above the zone and alert
sirens sounded. It was not clear
whether anything had been hit.
Five members of the U.S. House of
Representatives were in the embassy
at the time, but none was injured.
Meanwhile, an Egyptian diplomat
and two British Muslim leaders
urged religious leaders to help secure
the release of hostages.
Egyptian official Farouq Mabrouk
sought help for six Egyptian telecom
munications workers abducted with
four Iraqis last week. Mabrouk re
fused to speak to reporters after his
30-minute meeting with Harith al
Dhari, who heads the Association of
Muslim Scholars, a conservative or
ganization that has helped win the
release of other foreign captives.
Gunmen abducted two of the
Egyptians on Thursday in a raid on
their firm's Baghdad office — the
latest in a string of kidnappings tar
geting engineers working on re
building Iraq. Eight other employ
ees, four Egyptians and four Iraqis,
were seized outside Baghdad on
Wednesday.
More than 140 foreigners have
been kidnapped in Iraq — some by
anti-U.S. insurgents and others by
criminals seeking ransom. At least 26
have been killed, including the two
American civil engineers, Eugene
Armstrong and Jack Hensley.
Persistent violence, coupled with
the coalition forces' lack of control
in key parts of the country, has
raised questions about the feasibili
ty of holding elections by the Jan.
31 deadline.
Secretary of State Colin Powell
said Sunday that the United States is
committed to allowing all Iraqis the
chance to vote, but the top U.S. mili
tary commander in the region cau
tioned against expecting that sort of
achievement.
Both Powell and Gen. John
Abizaid spoke of a major political
and military effort before the sched
uled elections to take back areas that
insurgents now control.
Powell said planning is under way
for an Iraqi conference, possibly next
month, that would include the lead
ing industrialized nations and region
al powers, including Iran and Syria.
“This was a way to reach out to
Iraq's immediate neighbors and per
suade them that this is the time to
help Iraq, so that the region can be
come stable,” Powell said on CNN's
“Late Edition.”