8A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
IRAQ
MONDAY. MARCH 18,2006
Explosions rock neighborhood
Attack comes after announcement of early parliament meeting
Alaa Al: Mariani/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The feared resumption of mass sectarian violence erupted Sunday in a baghdad Shiite slum when bombers blew apart two markets shortly before sundown, killing at least 41 people and wounding about 140.
The bloody assaults on Sadr City came only minutes after Iraqi political leaders said the new parliament will convene Thursday, three days earlier than planned, as the U.S. ambassador pushed to break a stalemate over naming a unity government.
The attackers struck with car bombs, including a suicide driver and mortars at the peak shopping time, destroying dozens of market stalls and vehicles as the explosives ripped through the poor neighborhood as residents were buying food for their evening meals.
Mohaned Ali, 14, Son of Ali Hassan Mashawash cries near the casket of his father as friends and relatives offer prayers before the burial, in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Sunday, Mashawash was the Dean at the Collage of Engineering in Al Mustansaryah University in Baghdad and was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen a week ago. His body was found Sunday near Baghdad, according to his family.
The neighborhood was quickly sealed off by Mahdi Army militiamen of radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sad amid pandemonium as residents searched wildly for survivors and put charred corpses into ambulances and trucks to be taken away.
Smoke billowed into the evening sky and angry young men kicked the decapitated head of the suicide attacker, who appeared to be an African, that lay in the street at a shop door.
The nature of the attack, its use of a suicide bomber, bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida in Iraq, which has said it hoped to start a Shilite-Sunni civil conflict.
Police said they defused a third car bomb, likely preventing an even higher death toll.
Bomb blasts, rocket and gunfire also killed at least 12 other people — 10 in Baghdad — and wounded 34 Sunday.
The low thud of mortar fire periodically rumbled over the city.
The Sadr City bombers struck shortly after U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and leaders of Iraq's main ethnic and religious blocs concluded a news
The attackers struck with car bombs, including a suicide driver and mortars at the peak shopping time, destroying dozens of market stalls and vehicles as the explosives ripped through the poor neighborhood as residents were buying food for their evening meals.
conference to announce agreement to move forward the first session of the new parliament to Thursday.
The political leaders said they would open marathon meetings on Monday in an attempt to reach agreement on a new government. Khalilzad said he would be available to join the talks at any time.
Among the issues to be discussed are how many positions various blocs will get in the new government, which will fill key posts and the government's program of action.
The first parliamentary session will take place three months after Dec. 15 elections and a month after the results were certified. It sets in motion a 60-day deadline for the legislature to elect a new president, approve the nomination of a prime minister and sign off on his Cabinet.
President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, stood by Shiite leader Adbul-Aziz al-Hakim and other Kurdish, Sunni Arab and secular leaders to make the announcement-
ment.
Khalilzad said a permanent government needed to be in place quickly to fill the "vacuum in authority" at a time of continuing effort by "terrorists to provoke sectarian conflict."
"To deal with the threat, (there is) the need on an urgent basis to form a government of national unity." Khalilzad said.
Al-Hakim, head of the powerful Shiite Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq,
agreed that forming a government was imperative.
"There was a determination from all the leaders to assume their responsibility to deal with this crisis. We have to get Iraq out of the situation it is in now," he said, standing outside Massoud Barzani's Kurdish Democratic Party headquarters.
Formation of a strong central government is key to U.S. hopes to announce troop withdrawals beginning this summer.
Senator proposes Bush be rebuked for wiretapping
GOVERNMENT
BY DOUGLASS K. DANIEL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A liberal Democrat and potential White House contender is proposing censuring President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping, saying the White House misled Americans about its legality.
A censure resolution, which simply would scold the presi-
"The president has broken the law and, in some way, he must be held accountable." Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told The Associated Press in an interview.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., called the proposal "a crazy political move"
simply would sed dent, has been used just once in U.S. history — against Andrew Jackson in 1834.
that would weaken the U.S. during wartime.
The five-page resolution to be introduced on Monday contends that Bush violated the law when, on his own, he set up the eavesdropping program within the National Security Agency in the months following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Bush claims that his authority as commander in chief as well as a September 2001 congressional authorization to use force in the fight against terrorism gave him the power to authorize the surveillance.
The White House had no immediate response on Sunday.
The resolution says the president "repeatedly misled the public" before the disclosure of the NSA program last December when he indicated the administration was relying on court orders to wiretap terror suspects
"The president has broken the law and, in some way, he must be held accountable."
inside the U.S.
"Congress has to reassert our system of government, and the cleanest and the most efficient way to do that is to censure the president," Feingold said. "And, hopefully, he will acknowledge that he did something wrong."
The Wisconsin Democrat, considered a presidential contender for 2008, said he had not discussed censure with other senators but that, based on criticism leveled at Bush by both Democrats and Republicans, the resolution makes sense.
Russ Feingold
Sen. D-Wis
The president's action were "in the strike zone" in terms
of being an impeachable offense, Feingold said. The senator questioned whether impeaching Bush and removing him from office
would be good for the country.
In the House, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is pushing legislation that would call on the Republican-controlled Congress to determine whether there are grounds for impeachment.
The program granted intelligence officers the power to monitor — without court approval — the international calls and e-mails of U.S. residents, when those officers suspect terrorism may be involved.
Frist, appearing on ABC's "This Week," said that he hoped al-Qaida and other enemies of the U.S. were not listening to the infighting.
"The signal that it sends, that there is in any way a lack of support for our commander in chief who is leading us with a bold vision in a way that is making our homeland safer, is wrong." Frist said.
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