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ALWATAN DAILY
6 WORLD SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2010
NEWS IN BRIEF
Anglican leader laments
Obama ties failed plane US school official
attack to Al-Qaeda, suspect among victims of
‘terrible and grueling’ decade
LONDON: The world had endured a
“terrible and grueling” past decade, the
Archbishop of Canterbury said in a New
equipped by Islamic militants Mexican violence
Year message Friday that called for coop-
eration to tackle issues like extremism
and global warming. Rowan Williams,
the leader of the world’s 77 million An-
glicans, added though that people should
not give up on the “hope for change” or DURANGO, Mexico: The bodies of six men - including a
“shrug our shoulders and lower our ex-
HONOLULU: US President Barack Obama said it ap- California educator - were found in the north-central Mexican
pectations”. It had been a “terrible and
grueling 10 years in all kinds of ways”, peared the suspect who tried to bomb a Detroit-bound plane Oxford Richmond Oxford Richmond
state of Durango, hours after they had been abducted from a
he said, stressing the global nature of over Christmas was a member of Al-Qaeda and had been nearby restaurant, the man’s relatives said Friday.
many of today’s concerns. “The truth is trained and equipped by the Islamic militant network. “He was needlessly and senselessly murdered,” said Carlos
MICHIGAN MICHIGAN
that there are fewer and fewer problems Defending his administration’s counterterrorism efforts Salcedo, 37, about his brother, Augustin Roberto “Bobby” Sal-
in our world that are just local. “Suffering amid scathing Republican criticism, Obama said he received cedo, of El Monte, east of Los Angeles.
and risk spread across boundaries, even preliminary results of the reviews he ordered into air travel Bobby Salcedo, 33, had traveled with his wife to visit her
that biggest of all boundaries between screening procedures and a “terrorist watch-list system” and family in Gomez Palacio, his brother said. They were eating
the rich and the poor. Crises don’t stop at expected final results in the days to come. Al-Qaida link in Al-Qaida when in
in a restaurant Wednesday night link armed men barged in,
failed plane attack failed plane attack
national frontiers. “It’s one thing that ter- Obama, who is on vacation in Hawaii, had called for an forced everyone onto the floor and abducted all six men who
rorism and environmental challenge and immediate study of what he termed “human and systemic were in the party, Carlos Salcedo told CNN in a telephone
epidemic disease have taught us.” -AFP failures” that allowed 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk interview.
Abdulmutallab to get on a Northwest Airlines flight from At 7 a.m. Friday, police notified his sister-in-law that they had
Chad president makes Amsterdam to Detroit on December 25 allegedly with ex- Detroit Detroit
found her husband’s body in a local ravine with bullet wounds to
plosives in his clothes. the head and chest, he said.
New Year peace plea to rebels “The investigation into the Christmas Day incident con- Lake St. Lake a violent act,
“All indications are that this was just random, St.
NDJAMENA: Chad’s President Idriss
tinues, and we’re learning more about the suspect,” Obama
said in his weekly radio and Internet address, released on
Clair Clair
just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he told
reporters in El Monte.
Deby Itno called Friday on rebel forces in Friday local time. “What we really want to do is just shed a light on this inci-
the troubled central African nation to lay
down their weapons, saying constant con- “It appears that he joined an affiliate of al Qaeda, and Windsor Windsor
dent and the senseless, violent acts that are happening across the
flict was hindering development. “War that this group - al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - trained border from us and really just put a spotlight on this and make
him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to sure that we find justice.”
is not the solution,” the president in his
New Year address. “Today, conditions are attack that plane headed for America,” Obama said. CANADA CANADA
“He was a brilliant, a bright star for our community, and
more than ripe for everyone to satisfy The president’s comments were his most explicit to date he as taken from us,” said El Monte Mayor Andre Quintero of
their political ambitions through the bal- tying the suspect with the Al-Qaeda group. Leamington Leamington
Salcedo, who served on the city school district board. “He was
lot box.” The landlocked nation is rich in Republicans have accused Obama, a Democrat, of mis- stolen from us and now we need to hold them accountable for
natural resources but has been blighted handling the incident and not doing enough to prevent at- what they did.”
by violence and instability. In February tacks on the United States. A man who answered the phone at Gomez Palacio’s Secre-
last year, rebels swept across the whole of Appearing on the defensive, Obama used much of his Monroe 0 10 mi tariat of Protection and Roads said no one was 10 mi Friday
Monroe 0 available
south Chad to Ndjamena in a week and address to outline his administration’s actions to keep the to discuss the matter.
were only defeated with French help. But
Deby, who took power in a 1990 military
country safe, including withdrawing troops from Iraq, Lake Erie 0 10 km Lake Erie
Violence in Mexico has been heightened10 km years
0 in recent
boosting troop levels in Afghanistan and strengthening ties by drug-related disputes. The country ended 2009 with a re-
coup but has since been democratically
with Yemen, where the suspect spent time before the at- cord number of drug-related deaths, exceeding the record tally
elected, insisted Friday that the country’s
tack.
Map locates Detroit where plane passenger set off anAP
SOURCE: ESRI ex- SOURCE: ESRI
reached in 2008, unofficial counts indicate. AP
rebel movements had no future and ac- plosive device Friday in failed terrorist attack. (AP)
cused them of acting as “a brake on the Obama has summoned US intelligence chiefs to a meet- The government has not released official figures, but national
country’s development”. -AP ing next week at the White House to discuss how to prevent official briefed on the intelligence. media say 7,600 Mexicans lost their lives in the war on drugs in
a repeat of the attempted airplane bombing. The CIA first learned of Abdulmutallab in November, 2009. Mexican President Felipe Calderon said earlier this year
US intelligence and counterterrorism officials, speak- when his father came to the US Embassy in Nigeria and Editor’s Note: Mexicans died in drug violence in 2008.
that 6,500 It is mandatory to include all
Kinshasa plans new offensive ing this week on condition of anonymity, said spy agencies sought help in finding him, a spokesman said. The accompany this graphic when
sources thatvast majority of the deaths have been among criminals,
against Rwandan rebels picked up important information about Abdulmutallab, and
about the intentions of Al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen, in the
The agency said it then worked with the embassy to add
Abdulmutallab and his possible Yemeni contacts to the US
not civilians, Calderon and other Mexican officials have said re-
repurposing or editing it for publication
peatedly.
KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of months before the attempted bombing. terrorism database and forwarded biographical information Though the family has received no official word about wheth-
Congo forces are to mount a new offen-
sive against Rwandan Hutu rebels in the
The intelligence trail began at least four months ago,
when the US National Security Agency intercepted commu-
<AP> DETROIT PLANE 122509: Map locates Detroit, where a plane
about him to the National Counterterrorism Center.
Although worrying, a US intelligence official said, the
er the killing was related to drugs, “We imagine it had something
to do with it,” Salcedo’s sister, Griselda, said in a telephone in-
east of the country with the backing of nications between Al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen discussing the passenger set off an explosive device Friday in a failed terrorist attack;
information the CIA received about Abdulmutallab was terview. -Reuters
UN troops, a Congolese army officer
1c x 2 3/4 inches; 47 mm x 72 mm; with related stories; AGP; ETA 9 p.m.
possibility of using a “Nigerian” bomber, according to one sketchy. -Reuters
said Friday. The operation dubbed Am-
ani Leo, or Peace Now in Swahili, aims
to complete an operation launched in </AP>
Spain takes over European Union presidency
February last year, which was reported to
have claimed hundreds of civilian lives,
Major Sylvain Ekenge told AFP. Ekenge,
spokesman for the military in Nord-Kivu
province, said the aim was to “completely
eradicate” the Democratic Forces for the
Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels in a
three-month campaign beginning in Janu- MADRID: Spain took over the presidency of the European
ary. He claimed that in the previous of- Union on Friday, with the prime minister promising to work to
fensive government troops destroyed all end the continent’s economic crisis.
FDLR bases in Nord- and Sud-Kivu, kill- The six-month rotating post passed from Sweden to Spain
ing 1,472 of the rebels. A further 2,029 at the stroke of midnight, and the country launched its stint in
surrendered or were captured and sent the helm with a spectacular sound and light show for New Year’s
back to Rwanda by the UN mission in DR Eve revelers gathered at the Puerta del Sol, one of Madrid’s most
Congo, he added. -AFP emblematic plazas.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Spain’s
main goal as EU president is “to fight for economic recovery, for
recovery from the crisis, and make Europe an economy that is
Police shoot more and more productive, more and more innovative and more
and more sustainable.”
Zapatero also said that under the new Treaty of Lisbon,
man attacking which went into effect Dec. 1, the 27-member European Union
must work to assert itself more on the global stage as it deals
Prophet’s with powerhouses like the United States and China.
“We have to make Europe an ever stronger factor in the in-
ternational context; a Europe that defends and extends the val-
cartoonist ues of peace, cooperation, and dialogue among all peoples and
nations,” Zapatero said in a short video posted on a Web site the
government has created to launch the presidency.
COPENHAGEN: Police shot One of the key goals of the Lisbon treaty is to streamline
a Somali man wielding an axe and EU decision-making procedures so the bloc can act with more
a knife as he tried to break into agility.
the home of an artist whose car- It also created the post of full-time president, Belgian Her-
toon of the Prophet Muhammad man Van Rompuy, and named a new foreign policy chief, Britain’s
with a bomb-shaped turban out- Catherine Ashton, but retained the system of rotating presiden-
raged the Muslim world, the head cies for handling the bloc’s day-to-day affairs.
of Denmark’s intelligence agency As chance would have it, the EU’s efforts to resurrect the
said Saturday. economy will now be led by the country that is perhaps the worst
Jakob Scharf said in a state- off of all of them.
ment that a 28-year-old man with Spain has an EU-high unemployment rate of 17.9 percent,
Blue lighting and the European flag shine on the Puerta del sol in Madrid to mark the Spanish European Union presidency as
ties to Al-Qaeda attempted to about double the bloc’s average, and while countries including
people gather to celebrate New Year’s Day early on Jan 1. (Reuters)
enter Kurt Westergaard’s home in France and Germany have managed to climb out of technical
Aarhus Friday night. But Wester- recession, Spain acknowledges it is lagging behind and will not Spain had posted nearly a decade of solid and sometimes tor, until the real estate bubble collapsed over the past two
gaard pressed an alarm and police see net creation of jobs until late this year. robust growth, largely on the strength of its construction sec- years. -Reuters
arrived minutes later.
The attack on the artist, whose
rendering was among 12 that led
Mudslide kills 19 people in Brazil island resort
to the torching of Danish diplo-
matic offices in predominantly
Muslim countries in 2006, was
“terror related,” Scharf said. He
said the man would be charged
with attempted murder. ANGRA DOS REIS, Brazil: A rain-soaked outcome.” Lula da Silva to briefly interrupt his vacation in with civil defense authorities.
Westergaard, whose 5-year- slab of hillside collapsed on three houses and The rains prompted President Luiz Inacio northeastern Brazil for an emergency meeting Gov. Sergio Cabral, who was expected to
old granddaughter was in the an upscale waterfront lodge after New Year cel- visit the area Saturday, released a statement la-
home on a sleepover, sought shel- ebrations on an island resort in this city near menting “this sad and painful” moment.
ter in a specially made safe room Rio de Janeiro, killing at least 19 people, au- The mudslide at the Pousada Sankay resort
when the suspect broke a window thorities said. Another mudslide elsewhere in apparently happened after tourists had re-
of the home, said Preben Nielsen the city killed 11. turned to their rooms following the New Year’s
of the Aarhus police. Ten people were injured by the resort slide celebration at the lodge on Ilha Grande, a 90-
Officers arrived two minutes early Friday, and about 120 rescuers scrambled minute ferry ride from Angra dos Reis on the
later and tried to arrest the assail- through mud and around toppled trees and mainland, fire department commander Pedro
ant, who wielded an ax at a po- large rocks to search for more survivors. Police Machado said.
lice officer. The officer then shot helicopters and navy vessels helped in the res- Police said some of the dead may have been
the man in a knee and a hand, cue effort. in the houses. They did not immediately release
authorities said. Nielsen said the In addition to the two deadly mudslides in the identities or nationalities of the victims.
suspect’s life was not in danger. Angra dos Reis, local authorities said nearly 80 Coroner Frank Perlini told Globo TV that
The suspect’s name was not mudslides were reported throughout the re- a boy and a teenage girl were among the vic-
released in line with Danish pri- gion, toppling trees and destroying power lines. tims, which also included at least three men and
vacy rules. Rain-related deaths in Rio de Janeiro state from three women. “We were told that many of these
“The arrested man has, ac- three days of heavy rains reached 50, officials houses here were rented by tourists for the holi-
cording to PET’s information, said, and more rain was predicted across the days,” Pezao said.
close relations to the Somali ter- region. “People had never seen so much rain A bulldozer was brought in to help in the
rorist group al-Shabab and al- in this region,” Rio de Janeiro’s vice governor, search for survivors. Bodies recovered from the
Qaida leaders in eastern Africa,” Luiz Fernando Pezao, told Globo TV. rubble were being transported off the island
Scharf said. PET is Denmark’s in- Pezao indicated he feared the death toll by boats and helicopters. Authorities said the
telligence agency. -AP could rise. “We’ll have to wait for the rescue View from the sea of the hill at Praia do Bananal, Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis, 100km south search was expected to continue through the
efforts, but we’ll likely encounter a very sad west of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan 1. (AP) night. -AP
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