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IN BRIEF
5.9-magnitude aftershock
rocks northern Japan
TOKYO — A strong earthquake
rocked northern Japan on Monday
near the area where the country’s
deadliest quake in a decade struck
last month. At least eight people
were injured.
The 5.9-magnitude quake, which hit
at 11:16 a.m., was centered close to the
earth’s surface in the Chuetsu area of
Niigata state, the Meteorological
Agency said. It was considered an af
tershock to the 6.8-magnitude tremor
that hit on Oct. 23, the agency said.
After the quake, service on a high
speed train line between Tokyo and
Niigata was suspended for safety
checks. One train derailed last month
when the initial quake struck almost
directly under its tracks.
Television footage from Niigata
showed swaying power lines and
ceiling lamps. Three weaker tremors
of magnitudes 5.0,4.5, and 4.2 struck
in rapid succession in the half hour
following the initial aftershock, the
Meteorological Agency said.
There was no danger of a tsunami,
or ocean waves triggered by seismic
activity, it said.
Rumsfeld: 'Rule of Iraq
assassins must end'
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defeating
the insurgents in Fallujah is critical
in the battle for a free Iraq because
“one part of the country cannot re
main under the rule of assassins,”
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rums
feld said Monday. “These are killers.
They chop people’s heads off,” he
told a Pentagon news conference
hours after American and U.S.
trained Iraqi troops launched an as
sault on Fallujah.
EWU students arrested
after campus bombing
SPOKANE, Wash. — Four Eastern
Washington University students were
suspended, and two faced criminal
charges Monday, after a pipe bomb
exploded outside a dormitory.
The bomb detonated about
1 a.m. Saturday outside the Morri
son Hall dormitory on EWU’s Ch
eney campus, but caused no in
juries or damage.
Barbara Richey, director of univer
sity relations, said the two students
who were arrested face possible fed
eral charges. Their names were not
released. Two others were indirectly
involved and were being questioned,
she said.
She called the incident isolated
and apparently “just a bad prank.”
The investigation by university po
lice was joined by Spokane County
sheriff’s detectives and the federal
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives.
The four students were removed
from their dormitory rooms and tem
porarily suspended pending the out
come of the criminal investigations,
Richey said.
Serb report acknowledges
planned mass murder
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
— A Serb commission’s final report
on the 1995 Srebrenica massacre ac
knowledges that the mass murder of
7,800 Muslim men and boys by Bosn
ian Serb forces was planned, an inter
national official said Monday.
The report on the worst massacre
of civilians in Europe since World
War II was presented to the Bosnian
Serb government last month but has
not yet been made public.
“The report itself admits and
provides details of the plan and de
liberate liquidation of thousands of
Bosniaks (Muslims) by the Bosnian
Serb forces,” Bernard Fassier,
the deputy to Bosnia’s top interna
tional administrator, Paddy Ash
down, told reporters.
Although Bosnian Serbs have long
been blamed for the massacre, it was
not until June — following the Sre
brenica commission’s preliminary re
port — that Serb officials acknowl
edged that their security forces
carried out the slaughter.
The number of victims has long
been disputed, with Bosnian Mus
lim officials claiming 8,000 men and
boys were killed in Srebrenica. But
Fassier said the commission found
that 7,800 were killed after it com
piled 34 lists of victims.
Nearly 1,200 Srebrenica victims
have been identified through DNA
analysis.
—The Associated Press
The siege of Fallujah begins
Thousands of U.S. troops, backed by armor and an air barrage,
launched the long-awaited assault on Fallujah, Iraq, on Monday
aimed at putting an end to guerrilla control of the Sunni Muslim city.
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Yasser Arafat critically ill;
visiting rights restricted
Power struggle emerges between Palestinian leaders,
Suhu Arafat — wife of Palestine's ailing president
BY LARA SUKHTIAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLAMART, France — Palestinian
leaders rushed to Paris on Monday to
check on the critically ill Yasser Arafat,
but hospital officials said visiting
rights were restricted, setting the stage
for a dramatic showdown between
the delegation and Arafat’s wife.
Early Monday, Suha Arafat ac
cused the leadership, including top
lieutenants Ahmed Qureia and Mah
moud Abbas, of coming to the
French capital with the sole inten
tion of usurping her husband’s role
as head of the Palestinian Authority.
“I tell you they are trying to bury
Abu Ammar alive,” she shouted, us
ing Arafat’s nom de guerre, in a furi
ous telephone call with Al-Jazeera
television from the 75-year-old
Arafat’s bedside in a hospital south
west of Paris.
“He is all right, and he is going
home,” she insisted.
Tayeb Abdel Rahim, a senior Arafat
aide, called a news conference in the
West Bank to dispute the claims.
“What came from Mrs. Arafat doesn’t
represent our people,” he said, accus
ing her of wanting “to be the lone
decision maker.”
And Palestinian Cabinet minister
Salah Taamri said, “We are Yasser
Arafat’s family. We knew Yasser
Arafat even before Mrs. Suha Arafat
was born. We care for Yasser Arafat
and no one has the right to deny the
truth from the Palestinian people.”
The Palestinian leadership abruptly
called off the Paris trip, then reversed
its decision. Qureia, the Palestinian
prime minister, and Abbas, a former
prime minister and the current PLO
deputy chairman, landed in France
late Monday on a private jet.
The prospect of their being barred
from Arafat’s hospital bedside was
bound to inflame an increasingly
tense power struggle.
Suha Arafat, his wife of 13 years
and mother of his daughter, seems to
have aligned herself with hard-liners
who apparently seek to take over the
Palestinian leadership in a post-Arafat
era, though some Palestinian officials
said her motives are more financial.
According to a senior official in
Arafat’s office, she has received
monthly payments of $100,000 from
Palestinian coffers and is widely be
lieved to have control of vast funds
collected by the PLO.
This year, French prosecutors
launched a money-laundering probe
into transfers of $11.4 million into her
accounts. She has refused to talk to
reporters about Palestinian finances.
Suha Arafat, 41, lives in Paris and has
not been to the West Bank or seen her
husband since the latest round of
Palestinian violence began in 2000.
Some Palestinians have com
plained Suha Arafat has gained too
much power, as she controls the
flow of information about her hus
band’s condition and has taken
charge of access to the ailing leader.
“She is not part of the Palestin
ian leadership,” Arafat security ad
viser Jibril Rajoub told Israel’s
Channel Two TV.
On their trip to Paris, Qureia and
Abbas, who is considered a likely suc
cessor to Arafat, were accompanied
by Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath and
Parliament Speaker Rauhi Fattouh.
They drove straight from the airport in
a nine-car convoy to a hotel a few
miles from the hospital.
“Tomorrow they will see the
French officials and visit President
Arafat in his hospital,” said Nabil
Abu Rdeneh, one of Arafat’s senior
aides. They were also to meet
French President Jacques Chirac.
Arafat was in intensive care
ARAFAT, page 7
Loyalists fearing overthrow shield
Ivory Coast President Gbagbo
More than 500 injured in Ivory Coast, Red Cross
says; U.N. Security Council considers sanctions
BY PARFAIT KOUASSI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Thou
sands of government loyalists massed
outside the home of Ivory Coast’s
president Monday, facing off against
French armored vehicles in response
to urgent appeals for a “human
shield” around the hard-line leader,
amid fears of an overthrow.
French and Ivory Coast military
leaders, appearing together on state
television, appealed for calm follow
ing three days of violent protests the
Red Cross said had wounded more
than 500 people. Two hospitals re
ported five dead and 250 wounded
in Monday’s clashes alone.
The Ivorian army said it would
start joint patrols in Abidjan, the
commercial capital, with French
and U.N. peacekeepers.
The U.N. Security Council met to
consider sanctions and the African
Union came out in support of
French and U.N. intervention, iso
lating President Laurent Gbagbo.
Chaos erupted Saturday when his
air force killed nine French peace
keepers and an American aid work
er in an airstrike on Ivory Coast’s
rebel-held north. The government
later called the bombing a mistake,
which France rejected.
On Monday, French armored ve
hicles moved in around Gbagbo's
home in Ivory Coast’s commercial
capital, Abidjan.
“Their presence here is scaring
people. They’re crying and they think
IVORY COAST, page 4
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