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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ONDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2007
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Planet, was this group's halftime entertainment of choice.
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"We realized the Puppy Bowl is better than watching Prince," Nick Welser, Dighton junior, said.
Regardless of the outcome of the Super Bowl, students found
Across town at The Hawk, 1340 Ohio St., patrons enjoyed a light atmosphere for the game
"We realized the Puppy Bowl is better than watching Prince."
NICK WEISER
Dighton junior
pleasure in watching this annual sporting event and all the food, friends and entertainment it entailed.
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Missy Brooks, Owerland Park sophomore, said she liked being able to watch the game in a fun place where it didn't matter who you rooted for.
Justin Stein, Lawrence senior, watched the game at The Hawk for the free promotions and food.
staff writer Katy Blair can be reached at kblair@kansan.com. Kansan staff writer Ashlee Kieler can be contacted at akieler@kansan.com.
— Edited by Katie Sullivan
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The ticket office offered everyone in line the choice between a $10 refund or entrance into Hadi Auditorium in the Wagnon Student Athlete Center to watch the game on a big-screen TV while they tried to solve the problem. Marchiony said about 30 students received refunds and about 40 students were
behind the Kansas bench.
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escorted to open seats a few at a time throughout the first half. He said all of them got in by halftime.
Brian McNabb, Liberal senior, said he got a refund and went home to watch the game.
"At least it's something," he said,
"but I'd rather have gone to the game."
Marchiony said that the Athletics
Department would consider ways to avoid similar confusion in the future and that he planned to seek student input. He wasn't sure what would be done, but mentioned stricter rules on saving seats in the student section as a possibility. He said he didn't know if things would be resolved for Wednesday's game against Kansas State.
"We'll have to talk about how we handle that in the future," he said.
Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@kansan. com.
— Edited by Carissa Pedigo
>> IRAQ
Sunday suicide attack deadliest yet
BY SAMEER N. YACOUB ASSOCIATED PRESS
Samir Mizban/ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Stunned Iraqis loaded coffins onto minivans and picked through the rubble of buildings Sunday after a suicide truck bomber obliterated a Baghdad market in a mainly Shiite area, killing at least 132 people in the deadliest single strike by a suicide bomber since the war started.
iraqi children inspect the crack of a car destroyed in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday. A parked car bomb exploded near a transect area in northern Baghdad where buses pick up people going to the eastern Shiite district of Sadr city, killing at least four people and wounding 21, police said.
The explosion Saturday was fifth major bombing in less than a month targeting predominantly Shite districts in Baghdad and the southern Shite city of Hillah. It also was the worst in the capital since a series of car bombs and mortars killed at least 215 people in the Shite district of Sadr City on Nov. 23.
Hospital officials said 132 people were killed and 305 were wounded in the thunderous explosion that sent a column of smoke into the sky on the east bank of the Tigris River. Heavily bandaged women, children and men filled hospital beds, while several bloodied bodies were piled onto blankets on the floor of the morgue, which was filled to capacity.
Police used loudspeakers to ask people to leave the area, fearing another suicide bomber could slip into the crowd.
Adnan Latta, a 51-year-old seller of gas cylinders, said people had recovered two bodies and body parts from under the rubble, while Shiite militiamen prevented anyone from entering the emptied buildings.
"It is a tragedy. The terrorists want to punish the Iraqi people. There was no police or American
presence in this market yesterday";
Lafta said.
The bombing came just days before American and Iraqi forces were expected to start an all-out assault on Sunni and Shite gunmen and bombers in the capital.
Only a day earlier, 16 American intelligence agencies made public a National Intelligence Estimate that said conditions in Baghdad were perilous.
"Unless efforts to reverse these conditions show measurable progress ... in the coming 12 to 18 months, we assess that the overall security situation will continue to deteriorate," a declassified synopsis of the report declared.
Suspicion fell on Sunni insurgents — al-Qaida in Iraq and allied groups in particular. The militant bombers are believed to have stepped up their campaign against Shiites in the final days before the joint U.S.-Iraqi crackdown in Baghdad. Many saw the operation as a last-cance effort to clamp off violence that has turned the capital into a sectarian battleground.
Iraqis elsewhere in Baghdad faced another round of bombings and shootings on Sunday, with at least 13 people killed, including two cell phone company employees in a drive-by shooting and four policemen who were struck by a roadside bomb.
Iraqi soldiers also detained 32 militants and discovered four weapons caches in western Baghdad, seizing 1,128 mortar rounds, five rocket-propelled grenades, a rocket launcher, 50 anti-aircraft shells and other ammunition, according to the
Saturday's death toll surpassed a Feb. 28, 2005, suicide car bomb targeting mostly Shiite police and national guard recruits in Hillah that killed 125.
Defense Ministry.
In the hours after the explosion, Shite and Sunni mortar teams traded fire across the darkened city. Two people were killed and 20 wounded in one predominantly Sunni district.
The White House called the bombing an atrocity. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the attack was "an example of what the forces of evil will do to intimidate the Iraqi people."
Meanwhite, an Iraqi militant group tied to al-Qaida in Iraq announced Saturday it had launched its own strategy to counter the coming U.S.-Iraq crackdown.
In an audiotape posted on a Web site commonly used by the insurgents, a voice purported to be that of Abu Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, also known as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, said the group would "widen the circle of battles" beyond Baghdad to all of Iraq. Al-Baghdadi heads The Mujahdeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of insurgent groups in Iraq.
The U.S. military reported the deaths of five more soldiers — four in fighting and one of an apparent heart attack. All died Friday.
Iraqi authorities said that 145 people were killed or were found dead Saturday, including those killed in the market bombing. Of the total, 19 were found dumped in the capital, most of the bodies showing signs of torture.
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