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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2004
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Question of the Day
KU info exists to answer all your questions about KU and life as a student. Check out KU info's Web site at kinfo.lib.ku.edu, call it 864-3508 or visit it in person at Anchch Library.
Where's my appendix, and what does it do?
Everybody's wondered — where is that pesky useless little organ? The appendix is located in the lower right-hand side of the abdomen, either behind the cecum or in front of the ileum. Nobody is really sure exactly what it does but there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that the appendix plays an important role as part of the body's immune system, especially early in life.
Campus character
Dewayne Ahrendt of Emery, S.D., travels to college campuses to stand up for what he believes in, he said. He has done this for six years because he wants to inform students about the Drug Enforcement Agency and what he feels are its unjust punishments. Yesterday Ahrendt stood on the University's campus with his homemade shirt as his protest.
Hostage beheaded on video
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A video posted yesterday on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong. The militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slaying and said another hostage — either an American or a Briton — would be killed in 24 hours.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The grisly decapitation was the latest killing in a particularly violent month in Iraq, with more than 500 people dead in insurgent attacks and U.S. military strikes over the past seven days. Earlier yesterday, gunmen in Baghdad assassinated two clerics
release hostages.
The video of the beheading of the man believed to be Armstrong surfaced soon after the expiration of a 48-hour deadline set earlier by al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group for the beheading of the three civil engineers.
from a powerful Sunni Muslim group that has served as a mediator to release hostages.
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The men  Armstrong, American
Jack Hensley and Briton Kenneth
Bigley - were abducted Thursday from
their home in a wealthy Baghdad
neighborhood.
a militant whose voice resembled al-Zarqawi, who has been linked to Al Qaeda, read a statement in the video saying the next hostage would be killed in 24 hours unless all Muslim women
prisoners are released from U.S. military jails.
tary jails.
"You, sister, rejoice. God's soldiers are coming to get you out of your chains and restore your purity by returning you to your mother and father," he said before grabbing the hostage, seated at his feet, and cutting his throat.
is throat. In Washington, a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Armstrong's body had been recovered, but the official would provide no information about where or when.
when. The taped beheading appears to be of Armstrong, but the CIA is still reviewing the tape to be sure, the official said.
Kerry speech criticizes war
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kerry, a fourth-term Massachusetts senator, voted to give Bush authority to wage the war and he said in August he still would have voted that way had he known there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
NEW YORK — Sen. John Kerry said yesterday that mistakes by President Bush in invading Iraq could lead to unending war and that no responsible commander in chief would have begun the war knowing Saddam Hussein didn't possess weapons of mass destruction and wasn't an imminent threat to the United States.
the same way. How can he possibly be serious?" the Democratic presidential candidate said at New York University.
Al Qaeda, the United States should have invaded Iraq? My answer is resoundingly no because a commander in chief's first responsibility is to make a wise and responsible decision to keep America safe."
"Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell," Kerry said. "But that was not, in itself, a reason to go to war. The satisfaction we take in his downfall does not hide this fact. We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure."
Kerry said yesterday, "Is he really saying to Americans that if we had known there were no imminent threat, no weapons of mass destruction, no ties to
the United States. "Yet today, President Bush tells us that he would do everything all over again.
ON THE RECORD
A female KU student reported a stereo and several CDs were stolen from her car in the 2300 block of West 26th Street Friday night.
A male KU student reported an amplifier and stereo stolen from his car on 1500 block of West 25th Street at Naismith Place Apartments Friday night.
Apartmentments Friday night
A male KU student reported a slender man in a red baggy hooded sweatshirt tried to steal his wallet at Kohl's Department Store, 3240 Iowa St., Saturday morning. The student, an employee at Kohl's, went out to his car and the suspect called over to him. When the student approached him, the man in the red sweatshirt acted like he had a gun in the pocket of his sweatshirt. The student then ran back into the store, Sgt. Dan Ward, Lawrence Police Department, said.
ON CAMPUS
Center for Russian and East European Studies is sponsoring another lecture in the Laird Brown Bag Fall 2004 series, "The Adventures of a Russian-American Citizen of the Universe, Fedor Karzhavin (1745-1812)," given by John Alexander of the history department from noon to 1 p.m. today at Room 318 in Bailey Hall.
Center for Russian and East European Studies will present a public lecture, "Why Belsan? Russia, Chechnya, and Military Reform: A Russian Colonel's Perspective," given by retired Col. Andrei Demerunko from 5 to 6 p.m. tomorrow at Room 318 in Bailey Hall.
University Christian Fellowship is holding Bible Study and Worship from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
INTERNATIONAL
Hussein claims he meant no harm to Iraqis during rein
Saddam said in the message that his regime had been "working for the general good and they didn't aim to harm."
CAIRO, Egypt — Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said in an interview published yesterday that a "depressed and broken in spirit" Saddam Hussein had appealed to him for mercy, saying his regime had meant no harm during the years it was in power.
The Associated Press
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