THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009
NEWS
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The turning of leaves around campus depicts both the colorful autumn season as well as a sign of winter approaching. The 2009-2010 Farmer's Almanac predicts a colder-than-average winter with near-normal levels of precipitation for the Lawrence area.
INTERNATIONAL
Car bomb kills 100 people in Pakistan market
People gather at the site of an explosion where a car bomb tore through a busy market in Peshawar, Pakistan Wednesday. Hillary Rodham Clinton, secretary of state, visited the country and pledged American support for its campaign against Islamist militants.
BY ROBERT BURNS Associated Press
PESAHWAR, Pakistan — Suspected militants exploded a car bomb in a market crowded with women and children Wednesday, killing 100 people and turning shops selling wedding dresses, toys and jewelry into a mass of burning debris and bodies.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar was Pakistan's deadliest since 2007 and came as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the country to offer support for its fight against a strengthening al-Qaida and Taliban-led insurgency based along the Afghan border.
more people to inform on them.
Clinton was three hours' drive away in the capital meeting Pakistani government leaders when the bomb went off in Peshawar. Her trip was not announced in advance in Pakistan for security reasons.
"He who kills a Muslim has no place but hell," said Mumtaz Ali, a wounded 19-year-old who was studying in a Muslim school attached to a mosque that was damaged in the attack. "We are taught the way of the prophet. We are not taught to kill innocent people."
The bomb was directed squarely at civilians, unlike many previous blasts that have targeted security forces or government or Western interests. While no one claimed responsibility, the bomb appeared aimed at undercutting public and political support for an ongoing army offensive against militants close to the frontier and showing that the government was unable to keep its people safe.
The U.S. believes fighting the insurgents on the frontier is vital to defeating extremism in Pakistan as well as in Afghanistan, where Taliban militants with links to those in Pakistan are waging an ever more violent campaign against American and NATO troops.
The shaky, U.S.-backed government said the bombing — the latest in a series this month — had strengthened its resolve to press ahead with the assault in the South Waziristan border region, a militant stronghold and a global training and operations hub for al-Qaida.
Underlining the threat in both nations, Taliban militants in suicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing 11 people — six of them U.N. staff, including one American.
The bombing just before 1:15 p.m. destroyed much of the Mina Bazaar in Peshawar's old town, a warren of narrow alleys clogged with stalls, shops and food sellers. The district drew mostly poor female shoppers and their children in this conservative city.
Fire swept through the area after the blast, sending a cloud of gray smoke into the air.
The wounded sat amid burning debris and parts of bodies. Men tried to pull survivors from beneath wreckage. One carried away a baby with a bloody face and a group of men rescued a young boy covered in dust, but others found only bodies of the dead.
"My son died here," one man cried.
At least 60 of the dead were women and children. Most security analysts said the attack could backfire on the insurgents and lead
A two-story building collapsed as firefighters doused it with water, causing more panic. Several hours later, people were still searching the debris for loved ones.
LEGAL
Jury chosen in polygamist case
BY MICHELLE ROBERTS
Associated Press
Court officials called 300 jurors to get 12 jurors and two alternates in tiny Schleicher County where everyone knows one another and media images of the sect's women wearing prairie-style dresses were impossible to avoid.
The original pool included 17 residents of the Yearning For Zion Ranch, but none are on the jury panel for the trial of Raymond Jessop.
ELDORADO, Texas - Eight men and four women were selected Wednesday for the jury that will decide the first criminal case stemming from the raid of a polygamist group's ranch in West Texas last year.
The 38-year-old is accused of sexual assault of a child, a charge stemming from his alleged marriage to an underage girl in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sect that believes polygamy brings glorification in heaven after death.
Opening statements were scheduled to begin Wednesday afternoon.
Prosecutors say that the girl, who gave birth at the ranch at
of nine women married to Jessop, including three who were reassigned to him after his brother was excommunicated from the sect by jailed leader Warren leff
Raymond Jessop is one of 12 FLDS men charged since authorities raided the ranch in April 2008 and swept 439 children into foster care.
Defense attorneys sought to bar prosecutors from talking about polygamy during the trial, but Texas District Judge Barbara Walther refused to prevent them from discussing the so-called "spiritual" marriages between men and multiple women in the community.
Jessop faces a bigamy charge, stemming from his alleged marriage to one of Jeffs' daughters, but will be tried on that indictment later.
Jessop is one of 12 FLDS men charged since authorities raided the ranch in April 2008 and swept 439 children into foster care.
The children were later returned to their parents after an appellate court intervened, but documents and DNA seized during the initial raid eventually resulted in criminal indictments.
The charges range from failure to report child abuse to sexual assault and bigamy.
"There was a deafening sound, and I was like a blind man for a few minutes," said Mohammad Usman, who was wounded in the shoulder. "I heard women and children crying and started to help others. There was the smell of human flesh in the air."
All the men will be tried separately.
The FLDS, a breakaway sect not recognized by the Mormon church, has historically been based along the Arizona-Utah line.
Jeffs, already convicted in Utah as accomplice to rape, awaits trial on similar charges in Arizona before he can be tried for sexual assault of a child and bigamy in Texas.
But church members bought a 1,700- acre ranch outside Eldorado about six years ago and began building log cabin-style homes and a four-story limestone temple visible from the highway through town.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister of North West Frontier Province, said 100 people had died and more than 200 were wounded.
Clinton was a few hours into her first visit to Pakistan as secretary of state when the bomb exploded.
The Mormon church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, renounced polygamous practices more than a century ago.
"I want you to know this fight is not Pakistan's alone," she said at a news conference that many Pakistani TV stations broadcast alongside images of burning buildings and wounded victims. "These extremists are committed to destroying what is dear to us as much as they are committed to destroying that which is dear to you and to all people. So this is our struggle as well."
CRIME
lowa City man charged with assault after broom fight
Authorities said an argument between the two escalated into a fight, with the man pushing the woman and hitting her with a broom handle, causing minor cuts.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — An Iowa City man has been charged with assault after getting into a broom fight with a woman. The Johnson County sheriff's office said that the fight began when a 54-year-old man was awakened early Tuesday by a woman cleaning the house.
Investigators determined the man was the primary aggressor in the assault. He was charged with domestic abuse assault without intent, causing injury.
The woman grabbed a broom to defend herself, striking the man on the head, causing a bump.
Associated Press
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