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Escalating violence causes
Iraq to dose its borders
BY MARIAM FAM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A car bomb detonated by remote
control exploded Thursday in Baghdad, killing two
Iraqis but missing a U.S. military convoy as insurgent vi
olence claimed more than 50 lives. Clashes between
Iraqi police and rebels erupted along a major highway
southeast of the capital.
With violence on the rise after the Jan. 30 election, Iraqi
officials announced they would seal the country’s borders
for five days this month around a major Shiite religious
holiday. Last year during the holiday, about 180 people
were killed in suicide attacks at Shiite shrines.
The car bomb detonated on Tahrir Square in the heart
of Baghdad, shattering the vehicle and setting several oth
er cars on fire. At least two Iraqis were killed and two oth
ers were wounded, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col.
James Hutton said.
An American military patrol had just passed through the
area, but there were no U.S. casualties, Hutton said.
Most of the violence Thursday targeted Iraq’s security
forces, part of an apparent insurgent campaign to under
mine public confidence after police and soldiers managed
to prevent catastrophic attacks during the elections.
The biggest attack occurred in Salman Pak, 12 miles
southeast of Baghdad, when insurgents attacked Iraqi
policemen who came to look for weapons, showering
them with machine-gun fire, rocket-propelled grenades
and mortar rounds, police said.
Iraq’s Interior Ministry said 14 policemen were killed,
65 were wounded and six were missing after the two
hour gun battle. Four insurgents also died in the fight
ing, the ministry said.
“We were on patrol to search for weapons,” wounded
policeman Waad Jassim said from his hospital bed. “When
we arrived, they opened heavy fire at us. There were many
of them, and some were charging out of houses. ”
Elsewhere, bodies of 20 Iraqi truck drivers who had
been shot were found dumped on a road, hands bound
behind their backs, police Capt. Ahmed Ismail said.
Gunmen fired on an Iraqi police patrol Thursday in
Baqouba, north of Baghdad, triggering a gun battle that
killed a civilian and wounded two police officers, officials
Post-election violence on the rise
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said. Assailants also killed a police lieutenant in Baqouba.
Five bodies in Iraqi National Guard uniforms were
found Thursday in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi,
70 miles west of Baghdad. Hospital director Ala al Ani
said residents reported that the slain men were among 13
guardsmen who went missing recently. T\vo insurgents
were killed Thursday in clashes with U.S. forces north of
Ramadi, residents and hospital officials said.
A videotape obtained Thursday showed gunmen killing
four blindfolded men who identified themselves as Iraqi
policemen sitting cross-legged on the floor of a room. A
date stamp on the video indicated it was recorded Feb. 3.
Elsewhere, a body was found riddled with bullets in
Mosul, and in the northern oil center of Kirkuk, a road
side bomb exploded several minutes after a U.S. military
patrol passed, killing one Iraqi, police said. In Baghdad,
gunmen shot to death a hospital receptionist.
House Republicans oppose
increased beer-tax proposal
BY BRAD CAIN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALEM — Advocates of higher
beer taxes said Thursday they think
most Oregonians would be willing to
pay a few cents more per glass for
their favorite brew to help fund alco
hol addiction programs.
But the beer-tax idea went flat al
most immediately, with House
Speaker Karen Minnis signaling that
House Republicans have no intention
of bending their no-new-taxes
pledge, regardless of the cause.
Further, supporters of the beer tax
got into hot water with state police
when they tried to hand out free beer
to legislators to show them how
“cheap” beer is in Oregon.
At a Capitol news conference, ad
vocates of higher beer taxes dis
played 12-packs of canned beer that
sold in a grocery store for $4.99 — a
low price made possible, they said,
by Oregon’s low taxes.
“Cheap beer is the direct cause of
our out-of-control youth alcohol abuse
problems and the damage, death and
violence it creates,” said Howard Sea
man, an Alaska activist who’s now
working to raise Oregon’s tax.
Afterward, Seaman went to deliv
er the 12-packs of low-end beer to
legislators’ offices but was ordered to
stop by Rusty Wolfe, a state police
trooper assigned to the Capitol.
Wolfe said that many lawmakers’
offices are staffed by interns who
aren’t yet 21 years old.
Wolfe did not cite Seaman, however.
At issue in the beer-tax dispute is
Oregon’s tax of $2.60 per 31-gallon
barrel, which is 46th lowest in the na
tion and hasn’t been raised since 1977.
Seaman and other advocates came
to the Capitol to support a bill co
sponsored by Rep. Jackie Dingfelder,
D-Portland, and Sen. Bill Morrisette,
D-Springfield, to boost the beer tax
by as much as $33 a barrel — or 10
cents for a 12-ounce bottle.
The increase could raise $150 mil
lion for prevention and treatment of
alcohol and drug addiction.
Noting the no-new-taxes environ
ment in the Capitol, the two legislators
call their plan a “cost recovery fee.”
“It’s not so much a tax as an at
tempt to collect a long-past-due bill
from the beer industry from some of
the problems associated with its
products,” Morrisette said.
To keep from financially harming
Oregon’s growing microbrew industry,
the beer tax would amount to a nick
el-a-drink increase on beers produced
by small breweries.
But beer industry lobbyist Paul Ro
main, who persuaded lawmakers to
kill previous beer tax hikes, said all
beer drinkers shouldn’t be saddled
with higher prices to help a relatively
small number of problem drinkers.
“Don’t have Joe Six-pack paying
for the abusers,” Romain said.
Regardless of how Dingfelder and
Morrisette characterize their propos
al, Minnis and other House Republi
cans view it as nothing but a tax in
crease, a spokesman for Minnis said.
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IN BRIEF
Photography auction to
raise funds for museum
The University Jordan Schnitzer
Museum of Art will auction off more
than 60 photographs by prominent
photographers from around the coun
try Saturday night at the museum.
A viewing of the photographs,
which are on display on the muse
um’s main floor, will begin at 5:30
p.m., and the auction will start at 7
p.m. Tickets to the event cost $30 per
person and include entrance to the
5:30 p.m. reception, where there will
be music, refreshments and hors
d’oeuvres. Tickets are available at the
museum. All proceeds will go toward
the Photography at Oregon programs
at the museum.
Photographs can be previewed
online at jsma.uoregon.edu.
For more information about the
auction or about placing absentee
bids, contact museum Special
Events Manager Miriam Jordan at
541-346-0973.
— Jared Paben