TUESDAY,OCT.9,2001
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Dan Bauer, Mission Hills freshman (left,) and Derek Morrison, St. Louis senior, stack cans for the "canconstruction" community service project. The event used creativity and school spirit to raise hundreds of canned goods.
American named in blast; embassy closes for security
The Associated Press
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia — A top Saudi official would not rule out a possible link between the Sept. 11 terror attacks and an explosion in Khobar that killed one American and another expatriate.
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef said in comments published yesterday that a number of witnesses were being questioned about Saturday's explosion. No arrests have been made.
Khobar, also injured five people, including an American, a Briton and two Filipinos.
The explosion, believed to have been a parcel bomb thrown by a pedestrian into a busy shopping district in the eastern Saudi city of
In Dallas yesterday, the employers of the American victim identified him as Michael Martin of Duncan, Okla. He worked for Halliburton Co., a provider of oil field services. Previously his name had been withheld until his family was notified.
Authorities have not identified the second person killed in the blast.
In an interview with the Saudi Daily Okaz, Nayef said: 'It is not currently possible to affirm or deny whether the Khobar bombing is related either to the
attacks on New York and Washington or a string of bombings in the past year that have targeted foreigners."
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah said the perpetrators of Saturday's attack "will be brought to justice," describing the explosion as "wrongful and cowardly" in comments carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
Agency. The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia closed yesterday for a security review, warning Americans in the country to be extremely cautious following the Khojar bombing and the U.S.-British attacks in Afghanistan, where Saudi exile
Osama bin Laden is hiding. Bin Laden is suspected of masterminding the Sept.11 attacks.
About 11,000 U.S. civilians live in and around Khobar, many employed in the oil and construction industries. Several thousand more military personnel are stationed in the area.
In 1996, 19 U.S. servicemen were killed when members of the dissident Saudi Hezbollah group bombed the Khobar Towers complex in Dhahran, near Khobar. U.S. prosecutors have indicted 14 people in that case.
Limbaugh loses hearing rapidly
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh told listeners yesterday he's virtually deaf but he wants to continue his nationally syndicated talk show.
Limbaugh said he noticed in May he had trouble hearing in his left ear. He said it had progressively worsened to total deafness in that ear. He said he has partial hearing in his right ear.
to people in person one-on-one if their voice frequency happens to fit the range that I can still hear, but I cannot hear radio," he said. "I cannot heartelivery. I cannot hear music. I am, for all practical purposes, deaf — and it's happened in three months."
tion. Through his call-in show and a 90-second radio commentary, he reaches about 20 million listeners on nearly 600 stations.
This summer, Limbaugh renewed his contract with the Premiere Radio Networks through 2009, reportedly for the highest price ever in radio syndica-
"I can occasionally talk
Limbaugh, 50, has aired his conservative-themed radio show for 14 years.
He said his hearing loss is not genetic. He said doctors had a theory about why he has gone deaf, "but I'm going to keep that to myself."
wanted to continue his show and is experimenting with ways that he can still communicate with telephone callers. If that doesn't work, he may do the show without callers.
"All I've lost is my ability to hear," he said. "But it doesn't mean I've lost my ability to communicate. Those are two different things, given the technological advances we have in this country today."
Limbaugh said he
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