IN BRIEF
Indonesia steps up hunt
for blast masterminds
BALI, Indonesia — Investigators
on Monday hunted for the two sus
pected masterminds of suicide bomb
ings on the resort island as Indonesia,
Thailand, the Philippines, Australia
and other nations went on high alert
to protect their beaches from a repeat
of the weekend attacks.
Newspapers published graphic
photographs of the three alleged
bombers’ severed heads, evidence
that investigators hope will lead them
to the two Malaysians believed to
have plotted Saturday’s attacks at
crowded restaurants that killed at
least 22 people and wounded 104, in
cluding six Americans.
“It is our hope that people will
recognize the faces and call us,” po
lice Brig. Gen. Sunarko Dami Artan
to said.
The men suspected of master
minding the attacks — Azahari bin
Husin and Noordin Mohamed Top —
allegedly are key figures in Jemaah
Islamiyah, a regional Islamic militant
group with links to al-Qaida that is
blamed for the 2002 Bali nightclub
bombings that killed 202 people,
mostly foreigners.
Palestinian police storm
parliament for firepower
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Dozens
of disgruntled Palestinian police offi
cers stormed the parliament building
Monday, complaining they do not
have enough firepower to confront
Hamas, and legislators upset over the
growing chaos demanded that Pales
tinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
reshuffle the Cabinet and fire his se
curity chief.
The protest and parliament’s re
buke of Abbas came a day after the
worst fighting between Hamas and
police in nearly a decade. Three peo
ple were killed, including the deputy
police chief in the Shati refugee camp
near Gaza City, who was shot in the
head after he and his men ran out of
bullets during a Hamas assault on
their station.
The violence underscored the dif
ficulties Abbas and his ill-equipped
security forces face in trying to con
trol unruly Gaza. Since Israel’s pull
out from the coastal territory last
month, the Islamic militant group
Hamas has become increasingly
brazen in challenging Abbas.
EU, Turkey agree on terms
for membership talks
LUXEMBOURG — TUrkey and the
European Union agreed Monday to
start talks on Ankara’s eventual
membership in the organization —
a historic first step that would trans
form the bloc by taking in a pre
dominantly Muslim nation and ex
panding its borders to Asia and the
Middle East.
T\irkish Foreign Minister Abdullah
Gul flew to Luxembourg for a late
night ceremony to formally open en
try talks following an agreement
reached after two dramatic days of
diplomacy that included strong U.S.
lobbying for Turkey’s candidacy.
“We have reached a historic point,”
Gul said in Ankara before departing.
“Full membership negotiations will,
God willing, begin tonight.”
Bush chooses Harriet
Miers for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — President Bush
named White House counsel Harriet
Miers to a Supreme Court in transition
Monday, turning to a longtime loyalist
without experience as a judge or pub
licly known views on abortion to suc
ceed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Miers “will strictly interpret our
Constitution and laws. She will not
legislate from the bench,” the presi
dent said as the 60-year-old former
private attorney and keeper of
campaign secrets stood nearby in
the Oval Office.
U.S. offensive continues
forward in Iraq
QA1M, Iraq — With snipers on
rooftops and helicopters hovering
overhead, U.S. forces clashed with
insurgent fighters Monday while
searching homes in a town near the
Syrian border.
In Baghdad, Iraq’s oil minister nar
rowly escaped an assassination at
tempt when a bomb hit his motorcade.
While U.S. forces pushed ahead
with their offensive further west,
fighting erupted in the capital of
Iraq’s Anbar province, with masked
militants attacking an Iraqi patrol
and sparking a gun battle in the
streets of Ramadi.
Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr al
Uloum was headed out of the capital
to attend the opening of a rebuilt re
finery to the north when the roadside
bomb hit his seven-car motorcade
Monday morning, killing three of his
bodyguards, the ministry said. Bahr
al-Uloum was unhurt.
State may pay extra for
soldiers on Katrina duty
SALEM — The Oregon Military
Department may have to cough up
an extra $2.5 million to pay the
2,000 or so Oregon National Guard
soldiers sent to Louisiana to help
with the aftermath of Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita.
The state promised soldiers head
ed to the Gulf Coast that they’d be
paid the same state active-duty rate
as if they were fighting fires within
Oregon’s borders, according to a re
port in The Oregonian.
But then the Department of De
fense ordered that guardsmen on
hurricane duty be paid at the lower
federal-duty rate, about $80 a day,
rather than about $250 a day.
If the department has to make up
the difference — roughly 15 percent
of its $16.7 million two-year budget
from the state general fund — the
National Guard will have to ask for
more money from the Legislative
Emergency Board.
“We’re hoping like heck we can go
to FEMA,” Col. Mike Caldwell, the
Oregon National Guard’s deputy di
rector, told The Oregonian. “We’re
going to send them a bill.”
The apparent pay cut prompted
angry phone calls and e-mails among
soldiers and family members. Cald
well said Oregon Adjutant General
Fred Rees went to the governor’s of
fice to ask for permission to make up
the difference. After getting approval,
the Military Department sent final
checks fate last week.
Police seek witness to
alleged rape
EUGENE — Police in Eugene want
to speak with a driver who may have
witnessed a man impersonating a po
lice officer rape a woman in the Santa
Clara area.
The alleged assault occurred in the
early morning hours of last Monday,
Sept. 26, when the impersonator per
suaded the woman to pull over her
vehicle.
The woman, who was then beaten
and raped, told investigators that a
vehicle drove by during the assault,
Lane County Sheriff Lt. Randy Smith
told The Register-Guard newspaper
of Eugene.
The attacker’s car appeared to be a
four-door Chevrolet Caprice from the
early 1990s with white doors and
roof and black hood and trunk, re
sembling an old or retired police car.
Sheriff Russ Burger, who attended
the news conference, said the bogus
police car doesn’t resemble any vehi
cles currently in use by local officers.
But Springfield police have said
they are aware of at least three out-of
date vehicles they’ve sold that could
possibly match the description of the
attacker’s car, Burger said.
The woman’s attacker is described
as a white male in his late teens or
early 20s, with shorter dark hair and
standing 5 feet 9 inches tall with a
thin build.
Search for Katrina bodies
ends in Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS — The search for
bodies of people killed by Hurricane
Katrina has ended in Louisiana, and
more searches will be conducted
only if someone reports seeing a
body, a state official said Monday.
All agencies conducting the
searches have finished their sweeps
for remains. But Kenyon Interna
tional Emergency Services, the pri
vate company hired by the state to
remove the bodies, is on call if any
other body is found, said Bob Jo
hannessen, a spokesman with the
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Hospitals.
Last week, the Federal Emergency
Management Agency said it had
completed its role in the search, be
cause its specialties were no longer
needed. Those services include get
ting to bodies in attics or other hard
to-reach places or in buildings that
may be structurally unsound.
FEMA did nearly 23,000 secondary
searches in New Orleans with about
a dozen teams.
As of Monday, the Katrina death
toll in Louisiana stood at 964.
Stocks mixed as inflation,
rate worries persist
NEW YORK — Stocks turned in a
mixed performance Monday after a
report showed that the nation’s man
ufacturing sector is expanding but
facing even higher costs, triggering
worries about inflation and rising in
terest rates.
The market made a brief advance
in early trading, lifted by lower oil
and a pair of multibillion-dollar ac
quisitions, but retraced its steps as in
vestors mulled the latest industrial
data from the Institute of Supply
Management. Meanwhile, news that
global computer chip sales grew 1.7
percent in August bolstered gains in
technology stocks.
While the ISM’s index was better
than expected and signaled that manu
facturing has so far withstood the ef
fects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita,
companies reported another steep rise
in raw materials prices last month
amid record energy costs. Price infla
tion is among the top reasons for the
Federal Reserve to keep to its policy of
raising interest rates.
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