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ILS. official: Closer to
capturing bin Laden
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The
United States and its allies have
moved closer to capturing Osama
bin Laden in the last two months,
a top U.S. counterterrorism offi-
S. Korean scientist
admits uranium tests
SEOUL, South Korea — A
prominent South Korean scientist
acknowledged Saturday that an
unauthorized experiment to enrich
uranium was conducted in three or
four tests in early 2000, but said
the amount in question was “so
small it's almost invisible."
South Korea scrambled to deny
uranium in eariy 2006
SAGHAND, Iran — Iran will
begin extracting uranium from
deep under its central desert in
to be used in reactors.
Saturday’s tour of the Saghand
mine, some 300 miles south of
Tehran, was the first time Iran has
allowed an international news
agency to visit a site related to its
highly ambitious program to devel-
op the entire fuel cycle, from
extracting uranium ore to enriching
nuclear fuel. Iran wants to prove it
has nothing hide, but serious
questions have been raised about
its nuclear program.
Iran’s critics argue that a coun-
try that controls the fuel cycle will
inevitably be able to produce a
nuclear bomb if or when it
decides to do so.
The AP learned eartier this
week that Iran told the U.N.
International Atomic Energy
Agency it was planning to
process more than 40 tons of
uranium into uranium hexafluo-
ride gas. The gas — if enriched
— would produce enough materi-
al for four or five nuclear war-
heads, according to experts.
Such gas can also be enriched to
make fuel for an electricity-pro-
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Department of Education may
withhold as much as $7 million
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Saturday during an unprecedent-
ed tour of the country’s uranium
mine.
Iran maintains its nuclear ambi-
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Putin vows tough response to ‘all-out war’ by
terrorists, death toll in school rises above 340
Associated Press photo/Yahya Ahmed.
A POLICEMAN STANDS BY A CAR that was involved in a car bomb
explosion that killed at least 20 and wounded 36 others in Kirkuk,
Iraq, Saturday.
Suicide bombing of
Iraqi PD station kills 20
plan for assessing annual year-
ly progress because it didn’t
meet the law’s requirements.
State officials say the money
the federal government is with-
Four~ Northside schools that holding won’t affect programs
choices guaranteed in No Child receive federal funds did not
to request transfers to move ____ _________
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mation is released. /
“The law states we’re sup-
posed to announce the results
before school started and we did
not make that deadline,” Debbie
Graves Ratcliffe, a TEA spokes-
woman, told the San Antonio
Express-News for its Saturday
editions. “We had some issues
we were appealing.”
releases a report that tells par- preliminary data will be
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gram after the country admitted
its scientists conducted an unau-
thorized experiment in 2000 to
enrich a small amount of urani-
um. The revelation threatened to , _______________________
complicate an international stand- less than two years, an official
off over communist North
Korea’s nuclear weapons devel-
opment.
The experiments were conduct-
ed between January and February
2000 at the government-affiliated
Korea Atomic Energy Research
Institute, its President Chang In-
soon told The Associated Press
Saturday.
"You often don't get the
’ ___‘ Putin made a quick visit to
gym’s roof was destroyed, win- the town before dawn Saturday,
Laden and other top al-Qaida fugi- desired result in the first test,"
Chang said. “In the viewpoints of
scientists, whether you had one
test or 10 tests doesn’t make a
big difference in this case.”
He said South Korean scien-
tists enriched uranium to 10 per-
cent during the tests — much
lower than weapons grade, which
requires enrichment of more,than
90 percent.
Chang said the amount
enriched was “so small it’s
almost invisible.”
He was to undergo triple or
quadruple bypass surgery, accord-
ing to a person close to Clinton
who requested anonymity.
broadcast Saturday.
“If he has a watch, he should
be looking at it because the clock
is ticking. He will be caught,”
Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S.
State Department coordinator for
counterterrorism, told private Geo
television network.
Asked if concrete progress had
been made during the last two
months — when Pakistan has
arrested dozens of terror sus-
pects including some key al-
Qaida operatives — Black said,
“Yes, I would say this.”
Black, who briefed a group of
Pakistani journalists after talks
Scares shut LAX down
for three hours
LOS ANGELES — Four termi-
nals at Los Angeles International
Airport were shut down for more
than three hours Saturday after a
passenger bypassed security at
one terminal and two flashlight
batteries1 exploded during screen-
ing at another, authorities said.
The incidents, about a half-hour
apart, were apparently unrelated
, and there was no link to terrorism,
according to the federal
Transportation Security
Administration. Thousands of Labor
Day weekend travelers were evacu-
ated from the terminals.
The airport's main road, the
! Tom Bradley International ,
Terminal and terminals 6,i 7 and
8 were reopened around noon.
The scare at the international
terminal came when batteries in
a plastic flashlight inside checked
luggage exploded as the bag was
being hand-searched by a TSA
worker, TSA spokeswoman Amy
Von Walter said. She said the
small but loud blast appeared to
have been caused by old batter-
ies.
BESLAN, Russia—A shak-
en President Vladimir Putin
made a rare and candid admis-
sion of Russian weakness
Saturday in the face of an “all-
out war” by terrorists after more
than 340 people — nearly half
of them children — were killed
in a hostage-taking at a south-
ern school.
Putin went on national televi-
sion to tell Russians they must
mobilize against terrorism. He
promised wide-ranging reforms
to toughen security forces and
purge corruption.
“We showed weakness, and
weak people are beaten,” he
said in a speech aimed at
addressing the grief, shock and
anger felt by many after a string
of attacks that have killed some
450 people in the past two
weeks, apparently in connection
with the war in Chechnya.
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Clinton in good spirits
as he awaits surgery
NEW YORK — Former
President Bill Clinton was in good
spirits Saturday, walking around
his hospital room in street
clothes and buoyed by thousands
of get-well messages as he await- cial said in a television interview
ed heart bypass surgery early
■ this coming week, people close
to the family said.
Clinton was expected to under-
go surgery as eariy as Monday
but probably Tuesday, said
Democratic Party Chairman Terry
McAuliffe, who said the former
president was “upbeat” when he
spoke to him by phone Friday.
“I thanked him for getting the
Democrats back on the front page,
and he fold me that’s about as far
as he's willing to go,” McAuliffe
said Saturday. “I said I needed
him out on the campaign trail as
soon as possible, and he said as
he soon as he recuperates he’ll be with officials here Friday, said he
ready to go.” could not predict exactly when bin
make adequate yearly progress
last year and students there
could be eligible to switch
schools this year.
Ratcliffe said talks with U.S.
Department of Education offi-
cials are continuing and state
educators hope for a compro-
mise. She said Texas scores are
late because of the state’s com-
plicated accountability system,
which includes several differ-
ent tests.
transportation. Also, federal education offi-
Linda Mora, deputy superin- cja|s scrappec| much of Texas’
instruction at Northside School
Agency and those results will be District, said it’s unlikely that a
released before that.” parent would choose to move a
Releasing the results when child when the school year is
the school year is more than coming to an end.
halfway over robs parents of 7—
TEA may lose out on federal funds
for violating No Child Left Behind
SYRIA ,
husk that was once the gymna- republic — were killed in 10
• hours of battles that shook the
more than 1,000 hostages were area around the school with
held during the 62-hour ordeal gunfire and explosions.
that started Wednesday. The
CHILDREN PLAY WITH TOY GUNS in Beslan, North Ossetia, Saturday. More than 340 people were
killed in a southern Russian school that had been seized by militants, a prosecutor said Saturday, and
among row after row of bodies President Vladimir Putin accused the attackers of trying to spark an ethnic conflict that would engulf
lined up in black or clear plastic Russia’s troubled Caucasus Mountains region.
body bags on the pavement at a
morgue in Vladikavkaz, the cap- dows shattered, walls pocked meeting local officials and tour- region’s borders closed while
ital of North Ossetia, where the with bullet holes. ing a hospital to speak with
Regional T
Minister
Dzgoyev said 323 people,
, were
killed. More than 540 people
were wounded — mostly chil-
dren. Medical officials said 448
people, including 248 children,
the No Child Left Behind Act. __________■ ,
Also, parents won’t be able progress will be out Feb. 23.
. ' : U.S. Department of in a row are eligible to transfer
I to a different school with the
forming schools until the infor- Nordquist said that’s not good district footing the bill for
enough, ; ■
“It won’t be February,” she
said. “We’ve been working with tendent for curriculum and
people at the Texas Education
dead from the school standoff in
the town of Beslan were taken. Situations
In some open bags lay the con- r
torted, thin bodies of children, including 156 children,
some monstrously charred.
In Beslan, people scoured
lists of names to see if their
loved ones survived the chaos
of the day before, when the remained hospitalized Saturday
standoff turned violent Friday evening.
as militants set off explosives in
the school and commandos
moved in to seize the building, explosive-laden
Beslan residents were t .
allowed to enter the burned-out independence for the Chechen
sium of School No. 1, where
more than 1,000 hostages were
KIRKUK, Iraq — A suicide
attacker detonated a car bomb
Saturday outside an Iraqi police
academy as hundreds of trainees
and civilians were leaving for the
day, killing 20 people and wound-
ing 36 others in the latest attack
designed to thwart U.S-backed
efforts to build a strong Iraqi secu-
rity force ahead of January elec-
tions.
U.S and Iraqi forces, mean-
while, launched an operation in
another northern town, Tai Afar,
to flush out a militant cell alleged-
ly smuggling men and arms in
from Syria, sparking a fierce gun-
battle that left at least eight people
dead and more than 50 injured.
South of Baghdad, attackers
fired mortar rounds at an Iraqi Army Capt. Angela Bowman,
police patrol, killing three offi- The aircraft’s two crew members
cers, said Col. Adnan Abdul- were wounded, she said.
Rahman of the Interior Ministry. A U.S. Stryker Brigade vehicle
The attack occurred between the securing the helicopter's site was
towns of Mahmoudiya and later attacked by rocket-propelled
Latifiyah 25 miles from the cap- grenades, the military said,
ital. Troops fought back, killing two
The car bomb in Kirkuk littered attackers.
the street with bloodied bodies, The attacks came amid fierce
gutted cars, shards of glass and resistance to smash a militant cell
twisted metal. The police acade- operating in the town, which U.S.
my’s steps were covered in blood.
“I saw one of my friends killed
before my eyes. I couldn’t do any-
thing to help him,” said Bassem
Ali, a student at the academy who
was hurt in the blast
Kirkuk police put the toll at 20
dead and 36 wounded.
“This is a terrorist act against
members of Iraqi police who were
going home,” said Kirkuk police
Col. Sarhat Qadir.
Police academy
target of bombing
A suicide attacker detonated a
car bomb Saturday outside a
police academy in Kirkuk killing
at least 20 and wounding 36.
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intelligence believed had become
a haven for militants crossing the
border from Syria.
Fawazi Mohammed, the head
of the local hospital, said at least
eight people died and another 50
were wounded during the clashes.
Many of the casualties were
caused by a mortar shell explo-
sion in a Tai Afar market, authori-
ties said.
In Baghdad, mortar rounds
No one immediately claimed landed near a convention center
responsibility for the attack. where members of Iraq’s 100-
Insurgents see police as collab- member transitional assembly,
orators with U.S.-led forces and known as the Iraqi Council, gath-
are bent on disrupting American ered for a meeting. Despite the
efforts to build a strong Iraqi secu- explosions, delegates elected four
rity force ahead of January elec- vice chairmen of the National
tions. Council, which is intended to act
Militants have blown up police as a watchdog over the interim
stations all over the country, government of Prime Minister
gunned down officers in drive-by Ayad Allawi until the election,
shootings and battered police The Cabinet met Saturday and
recruitment centers with mortar agreed to allocate more funds to
barrages and rocket-propelled security operations and rebuild
grenades — leaving policemen areas damaged by fighting. They
increasingly terrified and deter- also decided to build up a strategic
ring would-be recruits. food reserve able to supply the
From April 2003 to May 2004 country for three months. Allawi’s
alone, 710 Iraqi police were killed office said in a statement.
out of a total force of 130,000, Also Saturday, saboteurs blew
authorities said. up an oil pipeline in southern Iraq,
In Tai Afar, a U.S. OH-58D part of a campaign of attacks on
Kiowa helicopter was hit by the country’s oil infrastructure
enemy fire and forced to make an aimed at hampering reconstruc-
emergency landing, said U.S. tion efforts.
officials searched for anyone
Emergency wounded. He stopped to stroke connected to the attack.
;tcr Boris the head of an injured child. “What happened was a ter-
But some in the region were rorist act that was inhuman and
unimpressed, as grief turned to unprecedented in its cruelty,”
anger, both at the militants and Putin said in his televised
the government response. speech later. “It is a challenge
Marat Avsarayev, a 44-year- not to the president, the parlia-
old taxi driver in Vladikavkaz, ment and the government but a
questioned why Putin and other challenge to all of Russia, to all
politicians didn’t “even think of our people. It is an attack on
about fulfilling the (militants’) our nation.”
demands to save the lives of the , Including the school disaster,
children. Probably because it more than 450 people have
wasn’t their children here.” been killed in the past two
During his visit to Beslan, weeks in violence. Two planes
Putin stressed that security offi- crashed nearly simultaneously
cials had not planned to storm on Aug. 24, killing 90 people,
the school — trying to fend off and a suicide bomber killed
potential criticism that the gov- eight people in Moscow on
emment side provoked the Tuesday. Chechen separatists
bloodshed. He ordered the are suspected in both attacks.
Because the U.S..Department Left Behind.
of Education did not approve Under the law, approved in
the state’s plan until the end of 2002, schools must demon-
July, education officials are still strate overall year-to-year
tallying results, Ratcliffe said, progress, as well as in sub-
in federal funding .until Texas According to TEA’S Web site, groups based on race, ethnicity,
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