Iraq: Wyden says U.S. must support troops
1993
Feb. 26, New York City;
Bomb exploded in basement
garage of World Trade
Center, killing 6 and injuring
at least 1,040 others. In
1995, 11 militant Islamists
were convicted of conspiracy
charges, and in 1998 Ramzi
Yousef was convicted of the
bombing. Al-Qaeda
involvement is suspected.
1996
June 25, Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia: Truck bomb
exploded outside Khobar
Towers military complex,
killing 19 American
servicemen and injuring
hundreds of others.
Fourteen alleged members
of Islamic militant group
Hezbollah, were indicted on
charges relating to the
attack in June 2001.
1998
Aug. 7, Nairobi, Kenya, and
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania:
Truck bombs exploded
almost simultaneously near
two U.S. embassies, killing
224 and injuring about
4,500. Four men
connected with al-Qaeda
were convicted of the
killings in May 2001 and
later sentenced to life in
prison. A federal grand jury
had indicted 22 men in
connection with the
attacks, including Saudi
dissident Osama bin
Laden, who remained at
large.
2000
Oct. 12, Aden, Yemen: U.S.
Navy destroyer USS Cole
heavily damaged when a
small, boat loaded with
explosives blew tip
alongside it. Seventeen
sailors killed. Linked to the
al-Qaeda terrorist network.
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2001
Sept. 11, New York City,
Arlington, VaL, and
Shanksville, Pa.: Hijackers
crashed two commercial jets
into tire World Trade Center;
two more hijacked jets were
crashed into the Pentagon
and a field in rural Pa. Total
dead and missing numbered
2,992.
information compiled from infoplease.com
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Since the first attack on the World Trade
Center in 1993, international terrorists
have launched major attacks on Americans
both at home and abroad.
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one in the scheme of things,”
Feldkamp said.
Like Feldkamp, DeFazio approved
of the war in Afghanistan, but his
opinions differed on the war in Iraq.
DeFazio said the war was a distrac
tion from the fight against interna
tional terrorists who have the desire
and ability to hurt Americans on their
own soil. DeFazio said Saddam had
no weapons of mass destruction and,
in fact, had an adversarial relation
ship with al-Qaida.
"I think it was a tremendous
mistake (distracting) ourselves from
rebuilding Afghanistan and captur
ing Osama dead or alive ... ,” De
Fazio said. “The U.S. should have
focused on those who have the ca
pability of delivering devastating at
tacks, and that certainly wasn’t Sad
dam Hussein.”
DeFazio said Bush is spending $10
billion on a “Star Wars fantasy” in
Alaska, but with less than half of that
amount we could secure our borders.
Terrorist attacks won’t come with a nu
clear-tipped missile, but with a
weapon in a cargo container, he said.
Americans have the technology to
scan all trucks and vehicles coming
into the United States for radiological
devices and other weapons, but Bush
has claimed there is no money for
them, DeFazio said.
U.S. Senate
Republican Al King, who is chal
lenging Sen. Ron Wyden for his seat
in the U.S. Senate, said he supports
Bush “100 percent” for his decision
to go to war, saying the only chance
we have against “suicidal maniacs”
is to take the fight to them.
“There is no negotiation in those
kinds of circumstances; they’re going
to kill you,” King said.
King said he supported the war in
Iraq because establishing a democ
racy in the country will give the
United States an outpost in that part
of the world. The war also takes the
fight against terrorists away from
U.S. shores. However, he said we
should train the Iraqi police and
military quickly and leave the coun
try as soon as possible.
King stressed the need to spend
more money securing America’s bor
ders, emphasizing that halting the
flow of illegal aliens into this country
will also allow the United States to
prevent terrorists from entering.
“If we control illegal immigration,
we’re also going to control the
flow of terrorism into this country,”
he said.
Wyden, in an e-mail statement,
wrote that Americans don’t need to
give up their civil liberties to help
combat lerrorism at home.
“Following the September 11
attacks, I passed a law creating
a centralized database of suspected ter
rorists so that law enforcement
at the federal, state and local
levels can now work together to track
suspected terrorists,” he wrote.
Wyden wrote that he did not vote
to authorize the war in Iraq because
he didn’t see the country as an immi
nent threat to the United States based
on U.S. intelligence assessments.
“I thought a unilateral and unpro
voked attack could actually make us
less safe by breeding broader resent
ment to the U.S. in the Middle East,”
Wyden wrote. “Now that our troops
are committed, however, I believe we
must fully support our troops.”
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STUDENTS DISAGREE ON TERRORISM ISSUE
Congressional candidates ex
pressed very different views on how
to keep America safe from terror
ism, but University students on
campus were also split on the im
portant election-year issue.
Kate Anderson, a junior who plans
to study interior architecture, said the
best way to keep America safe from
terrorism is “to get Bush out of the
White House.” Anderson said it’s im
portant to know who has weapons of
mass destruction, but the best way to
combat terrorism is for the United
States to not inflame tensions in the
world in the first place.
“We are capitalistic, imperialistic
jerks to a lot of countries,” she said.
Junior Josh Tticker, who is study
ing international relations, said he
supports what President Bush is do
ing now and that it’s a narrow view
to think we should focus solely on
Osama bin Laden.
Tticker said some degree of’job
outsourcing to poorer countries
helps prevent terrorism because it
improves the underdeveloped coun
try’s economy and brings it into the
modern world, giving its people a
stake in a modern economy. The
best way to combat terrorism in the
long run is to encourage situations
where it’s impossible for terrorism
to flourish, he said.
Andrew Fick, a first-year graduate
student of marriage and family
therapy, said the United States
needs to have a cooperative effort to
fight terrorism.
“I think it’s important to have a
strong military, but not necessarily
wield it around,” Fick said, adding that
America should be fighting to win the
support of other nations and peoples,
not fighting with guns and bullets.
— Jared Paben
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under aerial, ground attacks
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television. “Since the situation has
gotten to this, each can go wherev
er they want and we don’t need to
talk about negotiations.”
Al-Jumeili was detained Friday, a
day after talks broke down over the
government’s demand that the city
hand over al-Zarqawi, who Fallu
jah’s clerics claim isn’t there.
Fallujah, considered a major
militant stronghold, has been un
der a wave of aerial and ground
attacks by U.S. forces in a bid to
root out al-Zarqawi and his group,
Tawhid and Jihad.
Tawhid and Jihad has claimed re
sponsibility for numerous behead
ings and suicide bombings, includ
ing two attacks on Baghdad’s Green
Zone last week that killed six, in
cluding four U.S. civilians.
During his appearance*before the
National Council, Allawi said his
government was still extending an
“olive branch” to Fallujah but
added that “we shall not be lenient
in regard to the question of main
taining security and granting secu
rity to every Iraqi.”
u negotiations ian to restore gov
ernment control to Fallujah, U.S.
and Iraqi military leaders are ex
pected to launch an all-out assault
on the city. Fallujah fell under in
surgent control after the Marines
lifted their siege of the city in April.
British Defense Secretary Geoff
Hoon told the House of Commons
that his government was consider
ing a request by Washington to re
deploy some British troops from
southern Iraq to free American sol
diers for “further operations else
where in Iraq.”
In Baghdad, a car bomb explod
ed late Sunday near a police patrol
in the Jadiriyah district, killing six
people, including three police offi
cers, and wounding 26 others. The
blast hit a cafe near the Australian
Embassy, although there were no
Australian casualties.
In Mosul, a car bomb detonated
Sunday morning on a bridge, killing
five Iraqis and wounding 15 others,
the U.S. military said Monday. An
other car bomber Monday hit a
civilian convoy, killing one and
wounding four others.
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