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■ CAPTURE Continued from page 1 The Iraqi officials did not specify when al-Hassan was captured, only saying he was detained after the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon, in a blast that killed 16 others. Syria fell under suspicion in the killing because of its military and political domination of the country, where it maintains 15,000 troops. Hariri had quit the premiership over Syria’s continued presence in Lebanon. The United States, France and the United Nations have applied extreme pressure on Damascus to withdraw from Lebanon, and the Syrians recently said they were pulling their forces back to the border, but not leaving the country immediately. David Satterfield, a U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state, was to meet Syrian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud on Monday to reiterate U.S. demands for the withdrawal and a thorough inquiry into the Hariri assassination. Syria was under additional pressure after Israel on Saturday accused Damascus of harboring Palestinian militants responsible for a Friday night suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were killed, shattering a hard-won truce. State Department spokesman Steve Pike said there was no change in the status of U.S. Ambassador to Syria Margaret Scobey, who was pulled from her post in Damascus to protest Hariri s killing. The Frenph ambassador to Washington, Jean-David Levitte, told CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” that al-Hassan’s handover “would be certainly a positive development, and that’s exactly what we expect from Syria.” The death toll mounted in Iraq on Sunday with two U.S. soldiers killed in a roadside ambush southwest of the capital, the second and third American deaths over the weekend that pushed the overall U.S. toll to nearly 1,500 since the war began in March 2003. The U.S. command also said a Marine was killed Saturday during military operations in central Babil province. Bomb attacks and ambushes killed nine people near the northern city of Mosul, while five headless bodies, including that of an Iraqi woman, were discovered in and just . . south of Baghdad. Gunmen, meanwhile, killed two policemen in an ambush as the officers were driving to work in western Baghdad. In Fallujah, U.S. Marines said one child was killed and six people were injured Saturday when a rocket landed inside, a park in the Jolan district. It was one of three rockets fired, the Marines said Sunday in an announcement. They said 54 people were detained during a two-day sweep for insurgents. Capt. Ahmed Ismael, an Iraqi L«.„. official said Syrian security forces expelled al-Hassan after he and his supporters had been turned back in an earlier attempt to cross the Syrian border into Lebanon and Jordan. Officials in interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s office confirmed al-Hassan’s capture but gave no other details. Al-Hassan was No. 36, the six of diamonds, on the list of 55 most wanted Iraqis compiled by U.S. authorities after Saddam was toppled in April 2003. Eleven from the deck of cards issued to help troops identify the suspects remain at large. The half brother also was named as one of the 29 most wanted supporters of the Iraqi lgence o cer, photo courtesy of the associated press said al-Hassan was handed to the Iraqis Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan, a half brother of Sunday. Another Iraqi former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. insurgency. The United States had offered $1 million for his capture. Allawi’s office said the arrest “shows the determination of the Iraqi government to chase and detain all criminals who carried out massacres and whose hands are stained with the blood of the Iraqi people, then bring them to justice to face the right punishment.” Iraq’s post-election Shiite Muslim power broker, United Iraqi Alliance leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, told AP al-Hassan’s arrest signaled troubled times for the insurgency. “Those criminals are on the run and we will chase the rest of them. We will work on arresting all the criminals, either those inside Iraq, or those in other neighboring countries, so that they can stand fair trial and be punished for the crimes they have committed against the Iraqi people,” he said. ■ SPEAKER Continued from page 1 toward a question and answer structure. “We saw with Iraq democracy isn’t easy to achieve. Insight from an expert can show how possible it is to achieve democracy.” JEREMIAH BUSH FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES “We saw with Iraq democracy isn’t easy to achieve. Insight from an expert can show how possible it is to achieve democracy,” said Bush, a fourth-year international studies student. Second-year math student Grace Blakely said she hopes the talk will open the eyes of USC students. Blakely, another member of the foundation, sees the talk both as educational in Syrian politics and as informative about how the United States could support change in Syrian politics. “Contemporary events, such as the killing of the former Lebanese Prime Minister by Syrian forces as well as the Syrian occupation of southern Lebanon and sponsorship of the terrorist group Hezbollah, raise serious doubts about the true dedication of Syria as an ally in the War on Terror,” said Blakely. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc. edu -1 ■ DEAN Continued from page 1 not as large as it could be, Bierbauer said. He sard the college has suffered from a lack of recognition, a problem being alleviated by receiving students from all over the nation. “Each program of ours is a selling point,” Bierbauer said. “Students will recognize, for example, that in broadcast we are doing a daily newscast, which is far more than they are doing in Chapel Hill by putting on a weekly.” The future is looking brighter for the school, though, Bierbauer said, with the identification of a building site and support of the USC Board of Trustees in a construction effort for a new school. Plans have already been drawn, and he said the college is looking for part of the funding to come from the legislature and the other part to come from fund raising activities. 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