Turkey orders mosques to give
messages against terrorism
BY PAMELA SAMPSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - The
Turkish government on Sunday
ordered the nation’s mosques to
deliver an anti-terrorism mes
sage as authorities pieced to
gether evidence to determine
who was behind a string of sui
cide bombings that killed 57 peo
ple and wounded hundreds more.
The Directorate for Religious
Affairs, which controls all
mosques in Turkey, said the anti
terrorism sermon should be
preached Tuesday, the first day
of a three-day Muslim holiday
marking the end of Ramadan.
"Terrorism, violence and an
archy have nothing to do with
Islam,” the sermon reads. “Our
duty is to love one another, and
to live like brothers in unity.”
Separately, Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip-Erdogan suggest
ed the attacks occurred in
Turkey because the nation is a
democracy with strong ties to the
West.
“It is meaningful that Turkey
was targeted,” Erdogan told the
British Broadcasting Corp.
“Turkey is a model country that
has merged the culture of Islam
and democracy together.”
The prime minister linked his
country’s efforts to join the
European Union with the fight
against international terror, sug
gesting it would improve the im
age of the West among Muslims
while aiding global law enforce
ment.
“Terrorism has an interna
tional, a global structure and the
fight against it should also be
global and we must do it all to
gether,” he said.
Erdogan also said officials
have not yet confirmed al-Qaida’s
participation in the attacks, but
believe the orders for the attacks
came from abroad.
“Unfortunately, four Turkish cit
izens have been used in this in
cident as part of this group,
which has international connec
tions,”
Three groups with purported
al-Qaida links have claimed re
sponsibility for the bombings
Thursday at the British
Consulate and a London-based
bank, which killed 30 victims and
the two bombers. On Nov. 15, at
tacks on two synagogues killed
23 victims and the two bombers.
More than 100 people crowded
into Istanbul’s tiny Anglican
church Sunday for a memorial to
those killed in the attacks on the
consulate and the London-based
bank, HSBC.
The Rev. Ian Sherwood, the
British consulate chaplain in
Istanbul, said not enough Islamic
leaders have condemned the at
' tacks.
“I’m appalled that I’ve not re
ceived any statements from a
Muslim teacher anywhere in the
world to express sorrow or rec
onciliation. It’s a real weakness
that has to be addressed,” he said
after the service.
Newspaper reports focused
Sunday on reported failings by
the intelligence services.
“The state’s intelligence orga
nizations had sufficient informa
tion on hand to prevent these at
tacks or at least to lessen the im
pact of the damage,” columnist
Murat Yetkin wrote in the news
paper Radikal. “However, pre
ventive measures could not be
taken because piecemeal infor
mation in the hands of the vari
ous intelligence units could not
be put together.”
The Milliyet daily reported
that the National Security
Council on Friday agreed there
had been shortcomings in coor
dination and deficiencies in gath
ering intelligence.
The newspaper Hurriyet said
Saturday that 18 people were tak
en into custody late Thursday,
just hours after the near-simul
taneous attacks at the consulate
and HSBC.
Investigators have also iden
tified the automobile dealership
that sold pickup trucks used in
the attacks, Hurriyet said.
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STATE
Campers discover
remains of 2 people
DALZELL (AP) — Two boys on
an overnight camping trip with
their fathers found the skeletal
remains of two people, the
Sumter County sheriff says.
The bodies, found Saturday
morning, could have been in the
woods for seven months or pos
sibly a year, Sheriff Tommy
Mims said.
The remains were clothed,
but it was impossible to deter
mine immediately the sex of the
bodies, which will be sent to
Newberry for forensics patho
logical examinations on
Monday. Mims said he doesn’t
think the remains are of anyone
the department has been inves
tigating as missing. He said it is
possible they are the bodies of
migrant workers.
3 die in car chase
with Highway patrol
COLUMBIA (AP) - Three
Monetta residents died in a car J
accident during a police chase
in Lexington County.
Driver Isaac Cullum, 24, his
girlfriend, Josephine Grant
Thomas, 30, and his cousin
Patrick Eugene Harris, 31, were
killed Friday night when their
,1976 Chevrolet Nova hit an oak
tree at an intersection.
A Batesburg-Leesville officer
noticed the car driving in the
wrong lane, said state Highway
Patrol spokesman Josef
Robinson. The officer tried to
pull the car over, but it sped off,
authorities said.
The chase reached speeds of
100 mph before the driver lost
control of the car at the inter
section.
Officials question
court decisions
CHARLESTON (AP) - Local of
ficials want to re-evaluate the
county’s Mental Health Court
following two incidents in which
offenders released from jail for
treatment met with tragic con
sequences.
The court, the first of its kind
in South Carolina, started in
January and allows people with
mental disorders who are
charged with nonviolent crimes
to get treatment and avoid
prison.
The process, which can take
two to six weeks, is coming into
question following two cases in
which the system failed and of
fenders with mental disorders
were accused of committing vi
olent crimes soon after their re
lease.
State cuts 1,100
jobs, records show
COLUMBIA (AP) - More than
1,100 state workers have lost per
manent, full-time jobs since the
beginning of 2001, according to
the State Budget and Control
Board.
Hundreds of other temporary
workers also have been dis
missed, but no statewide figures
are available on those jobs.
The 8.4 percent decline in the
state’s permanent work force
left workers searching for new
work in an economy where the
government is hemorrhaging
jobs.
NATION
Groups protest FBI
antiwar monitoring
WASHINGTON (AP) - Civil
liberties groups and politicians
raised the prospect Sunday that
FBI monitoring of antiwar
protesters could stifle legitimate
dissent and jeopardize people’s
First Amendment right to speak
their mind.
“What is the chilling effect
that will be felt by Americans all
across the country if they think
they will come under FBI scruti
ny just by going to a protest?”
said Anthony Romero, executive
director of the American Civil
Liberties Union.
An FBI official on Sunday de
nied any effort to collect intelli
gence on people exercising their
rights to free speech.
Chi-Chi’s sued over
hepatitis outbreak
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Five law
suits have already been filed
against the Chi-Chi’s restaurant
chain over a hepatitis A out
break that has killed three peo
ple and sickened nearly 600, and
scores of other lawsuits are like
ly to follow.
But legal experts say two key
issues facing the company could
determine whether victims and
their families get the settlements
they seek: insurance and
bankruptcy.
The Mexican restaurant
chain filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection on Oct. 8,
citing cash flow problems, a
month before the hepatitis out
break was confirmed.
Harvard leads pack
of Rhodes scholars
BOSTON (AP) - The newest
class of Rhodes Scholars in
cludes a soldier on his way to
Iraq, a political science major
who has worked with refugees
in the Balkans and Afghanistan,
and a national Frisbee champi
on who was a contributing sci
entist on a NASA Mars mission.
As the winners were an
nounced late Saturday and early
Sunday, many of the finalists
waited impatiently at ceremonies
in cities around the country.
Harvard led the class of 2004
— the 100th year of American
Rhodes Scholars — with four of
the 32 American scholars. The
U.S. Military Academy, Stanford
University, Boston College,
Williams College and
Washington University can each
boast of two. The two from Boston
CoEege are the school’s first.
Jury hears Malvo’s
taped testimony
CHESAPEAKE, VA. (AP) - One
jury heard hours of sniper sus
pect Lee Boyd Malvo’s taped con
fessions, punctuated by his gig
gles and sound effects and proud
descriptions of a paramilitary
mission to extort money in the
nation’s capital region.
Another jury, looking for in
sight into the mind of convicted
sniper mastermind John Allen
Muhammad as they decide
whether to recommend the death
penalty, has seen little beyond old
home movies of him playing with
his chEdren, and his bizarre but
short-lived attempt to represent
himself at trial.
WORLD
5 U.S. soldiers die
in helicopter crash
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) -
Five U.S. soldiers were killed
and seven injured when their
helicopter crashed Sunday near
the American military head
quarters north of the Afghan
capital, U.S. Central Command
said.
The soldiers were involved
in an ongoing U.S. military op
eration, dubbed Mountain
Resolve, taking place in the east
of the country, the military
said.
It was not clear what caused
the crash, and*the military said
it was investigating.
Bagram Air Base, just north
of the capital, is home to most of
the 11,600 coalition forces in
Afghanistan.
Georgian president
quits amid protests
TBILISI, GEORGIA (AP) -
Georgian President Eduard
Shevardnadze resigned Sunday
as the opposition threatened to
storm his residence.
His fall sparked fireworks
and dancing among tens of
thousands of protesters and
ended a political crisis aston
ishing for its speed ana lack of
violence in a blood-washed re
gion.
Shevardnadze’s resignation
caps a political career during
which he won admiration in the
West by helping guide the Cold
War to an end as Soviet foreign
minister under Mikhail
Gorbachev. But during 10 years
as president of Georgia, he be
came despised for rampant cor
ruption.
Shaton floats plan
for unilateral steps
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon, whose
popularity has slipped over his
failure to end the conflict with
the Palestinians, floated the idea
of unilateral steps Sunday, with
officials telling Israeli media
this may include drawing a bor
der and removing some settle
ments.
In the weekly Cabinet meet
ing Sunday, Sharon said he re
mains committed to the U.S.
backed “road map” peace plan,
which envisions a negotiated
deal, with a Palestinian state as
a centerpiece, by 2005. But
Sharon added that he does not
rule out unilateral steps.
U.N. official warns
of terrorist killings
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP)
- Terrorists will kill more of
the humanitarian workers try
ing to rebuild Afghanistan if in
ternational forces don’t im
prove security soon, a U.N. of
ficial warned Sunday at the fu
neral for a slain French aid
worker.
Kamel Morjane, the assistant
high commissioner of the United
Nations refugee agency, noted
that anti-government militants
pose an increasing threat
throughout the country.
He made the remarks at a
memorial for Bettina Goislard,
29, who was shot on Nov. 16 in
the southern city of Ghazni by
suspected Taliban insurgents.;