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New Orleans evacuation continues, but for many it’s too late
By ALLEN G. BREED
SUPREME COURT
Associated Press Writer
Justice
Rehnquist
dies at 80
of cancer
NEW ORLEANS — The last
bedraggled refugees were rescued from the Superdome on
Saturday and the convention
center was all but cleared,
leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying,
the elderly and frail stranded
too many days without food,
water or medical care.
No one knows how many
were killed by Hurricane Katrina’s floods and how many
more succumbed waiting to
be rescued. But the bodies are
everywhere: hidden in attics,
floating among the ruined city,
crumpled on wheelchairs,
abandoned on highways.
The last refugees at the Superdome and the convention
center climbed aboard buses
Saturday bound for shelters,
but the dying goes on.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco said
Saturday that she expected
the death toll to reach the
thousands. And Craig Vanderwagen, rear admiral of the U.S.
Public Health Service, said
one morgue alone, at a St. Gabriel prison, expected 1,000 to
2,000 bodies.
Touring the airport triage
center, Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a physician,
said “a lot more than eight to
10 people are dying a day.”
Most were those too sick or
weak to survive. But not all.
Charles Womack, a
30-year-old roofer, said he saw
one man beaten to death and
another commit suicide at the
Superdome. Womack was
beaten with a pipe and being
treated at the airport triage
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His death creates a
second opening on
highest court
By GINA HOLLAND
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died
Saturday evening of cancer,
ending a remarkable 33-year
tenure on the Supreme Court
and creating a rare second vacancy on the nation’s highest
court.
Rehnquist, 80, was surrounded by his three children
when he died at his home in
suburban Arlington.
“The Chief Justice battled
thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on
the court until a precipitous
decline in his health the last
couple of days,” said court
spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.
Rehnquist was appointed to
the Supreme Court as an associate justice in 1971 by President Nixon and took his seat
on Jan. 7, 1972. He was elevated to chief justice by President
Reagan in 1986.
His death ends a career during which Rehnquist oversaw
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Chief Justice
William Rehnquist, who
spent 33
years on the
Supreme
Court, is
shown in this
July 8 photo.
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Tanisha Blevin, 5, holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim Nita LaGarde, 105, as they are evacuated from the New
Orleans Convention Center in New Orleans on Saturday. Tanisha is the granddaughter of LaGarde’s nurse, Ernestine
Dangerfield. The group survived a harrowing ordeal, spending two days in an attic and two days on an interstate island before
camping out at the convention center.
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Bookings canceled as Mobilebased Holiday will house
evacuees for six months
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‘The Big 870’ serves as
vital communication tool
throughout city’s ordeal
By RHODA A. PICKETT
Staff Reporter
By JEFF AMY
Staff Reporter
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TODAY
Rehnquist’s career went from
firebrand to measured leader of
conservative court.
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Call it the talk show from the end of
the world.
WWL-AM 870, New Orleans’ oldest
and most powerful radio station, has
continued to broadcast since Hurricane
Katrina struck. With a collapsed telephone system, no power and several
television stations off the air, “The Big
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The cruise ship Holiday is shown at its downtown Mobile terminal
in 2004. The Holiday and two other Carnival line ships are being
pressed into service to house hurricane evacuees.
The Mobile-based Holiday cruise ship
will be taken out of the vacation business
and spend the next six months as a floating
shelter for those stranded by Hurricane Katrina, officials with Carnival Cruise Lines announced Saturday.
Carnival officials said affected guests
were to be notified Saturday of canceled and
modified sailings made necessary by the
contract entered into with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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How bad are things in south
Mobile County? Officials at a
distribution center said they
handed out food and other
relief supplies to an estimated
6,000 families on Saturday.
METRO/7B
Builders predict a postHurricane Katrina boom in the
local housing market, with
rental houses and
condominiums already being
gobbled up.
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More than 300 area
Guardsmen rolled for New
Orleans Saturday, saying
conditions there actually could
prove more primitive than in
Iraq, but they’re happy to help.
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Mobile residents tell of their
encounters with Katrina. For
many, it’s something they’ll
never forget. “We’ve been
devastated,” says one family
near Mobile Bay.
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Both supporters,
critics: Roberts
appears on track
By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON — John Roberts is on track for a seat on
the Supreme Court barring a
misstep at hearings beginning
Tuesday, according to supporters and critics who say the
coming confirmation debate
will test Senate Democrats as
well as the nominee.
Relatively few Republicans
and no Democrats have formally announced how they will
vote on the nomination of the
50-year-old
appeals
court
judge, saying they first want to
follow the hearings.
Behind the studied show of
neutrality, though, several Republicans who are tracking
Roberts’ nomination say he already has the likely support of
all but two or three of 55 GOP
senators and perhaps a few
Democrats — enough to assure
confirmation unless liberals
launch a filibuster.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has
pledged to preside over “efficient, dignified” hearings as
chairman of a Judiciary Committee known for outbursts of
unruly partisanship. At the
same time, the Pennsylvania
Republican said senators and
the country “need to know
much more” about Roberts’ judicial philosophy.
President Bush named Roberts in July as the court’s first
new justice in 11 years. If confirmed, he would succeed Sandra Day O’Connor, who has
often cast a deciding vote on
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Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said
in a recent interview. “Will he
be an ideologue who imposes
his views on everyone through
the courts or will he be a mainstream justice, albeit a conser-
John Roberts
Observers say he
already has the
likely support of
nearly all
Republican
senators and
maybe some
Democrats.
vative one?”
Already, some Democrats
have signaled the areas they intend to explore.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, DCalif., and the only woman on
the committee, has said she
feels a “special role and a special obligation” to explore his
views on the landmark 1973
case that established the right
to an abortion.
Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who will lead the Democratic questioning, informed
Roberts that he will ask about
a Justice Department memo
that critics say led to torture of
prisoners held by Americans
overseas.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, DMass., likely will ask about civil
rights.
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Evacuees are taken out of Chalmette, La., on the east side of New Orleans, in a dump truck operated by local residents Saturday as evacuation efforts continued in the aftermath of Katrina.
Last evacuees removed from Superdome, convention center
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center, where bodies were kept in a
refrigerated truck.
“One guy jumped off a balcony. I
saw him do it. He was talking to a lady
about it. He said it reminded him of
the war and he couldn’t leave,” he
said.
Three babies died at the convention center from heat exhaustion, said
Mark Kyle, a medical relief provider.
But some progress was evident.
The last 300 refugees at the Superdome were evacuated Saturday evening, eliciting cheers from members
of the Texas National Guard who had
been standing watch over the facility
for nearly a week as some 20,000 hurricane survivors waited for rescue.
The convention center was “almost empty” after 4,200 people were
removed, according to Marty Bahamonde, a spokesman for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
On Sunday, utility crews were to
send trucks into the city to assess
storm damage for the first time since
Katrina struck. Morgan Stewart, a
spokesman for electricity provider
Entergy Corp., said the National
Guard would escort the company’s
vehicles.
At the convention center, where
earlier estimates of the crowd
climbed as high as 25,000, thousands
of refugees dragged their meager belongings to buses, the mood more
numb than jubilant. Yolando Sanders,
who had been stuck at the convention
center for five days, was among those
who filed past corpses to reach the
buses.
“Anyplace is better than here,” she
said.
“People are dying over there.”
Nearby, a woman lay dead in a
wheelchair on the front steps. A man
was covered in a black drape with a
dry line of blood running to the gutter, where it had pooled. Another had
lain on a chaise lounge for four days,
his stocking feet peeking out from under a quilt.
DAVID J. PHILLIP/Associated Press
Much of St. Bernard Parish east of New Orleans remains covered in
floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina on Saturday as evacuation efforts
throughout the area continued.
By mid-afternoon, only pockets of
stragglers remained in the streets
around the convention center, and
New Orleans paramedics began carting away the dead.
A once-vibrant city of 480,000 people, overtaken just days ago by
floods, looting, rape and arson, was
now an empty, sodden tomb.
The exact number of dead won’t
be known for some time. Survivors
were still being plucked from roofs
and shattered highways across the
city. President Bush ordered more
than 7,000 active duty forces to the
Gulf Coast on Saturday.
“There are people in apartments
and hotels that you didn’t know were
there,” Army Brig. Gen. Mark Graham
said.
The overwhelming majority of
those stranded in the post-Katrina
chaos were those without the resources to escape — and, overwhelmingly, they were black.
“The first few days were a natural
disaster. The last four days were a
man-made disaster,” said Phillip Holt,
51, who was rescued from his home
Saturday with his partner and three of
their aging Chihuahuas. They left a
fourth behind they couldn’t grab in
time.
Tens of thousands of people had
been evacuated from the city, seeking
safety in Texas, Tennessee, Indiana
and Arkansas.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry warned Saturday that his enormous state was
running out of room, with more than
220,000 hurricane refugees camped
out there and more coming.
Emergency workers at the Astrodome were told to expect 10,000 new
arrivals daily for the next three days.
In Washington, Transportation
Secretary Norman Mineta announced
that more than 10,000 people had
been flown out of New Orleans in
what he called the largest airlift in history on U.S. soil. He said the flights
would continue as long as needed.
Thousands of people remained at
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, where officials turned a
Delta Blue terminal into a triage unit.
Officials said 3,000 to 5,000 people
had been treated at the triage unit,
but fewer than 200 remain. Others
throughout the airport awaited transport out of the city.
“In the beginning it was like trying
to lasso an octopus. When we got
here it was overwhelming,” said Jake
Jacoby, a physician helping run the
center.
Airport director Roy Williams said
about 30 people had died, some of
them elderly and ill. The bodies were
being kept in refrigerated trucks as a
temporary morgue.
At the convention center, people
stumbled toward the helicopters, dehydrated and nearly passing out from
exhaustion. Many had to be carried
by National Guard troops and police
on stretchers. And some were being
pushed up the street on office chairs
and on dollies.
Nita LaGarde, 105, was pushed
down the street in her wheelchair as
her nurse’s 5-year-old granddaughter,
Tanisha Blevin, held her hand. The
pair spent two days in an attic, two
days on an interstate island and the
last four days on the pavement in
front of the convention center.
“They’re good to see,” LaGarde
said, with remarkable gusto as she
waited to be loaded onto a gray Marine helicopter. She said they were
sent by God. “Whatever He has for
you, He’ll take care of you. He’ll sure
take care of you.”
LaGarde’s nurse, Ernestine Dangerfield, 60, said LaGarde had not had
a clean adult diaper in more than two
days. “I just want to get somewhere
where I can get her nice and clean,”
she said.
Around the corner, a motley fleet
of luxury tour buses and yellow
school buses lined up two deep to
pick up some of the healthier refugees. National Guardsmen confiscated
a gun, knives and letter openers from
people before they got on the buses.
“It’s been a long time coming,”
Derek Dabon, 29, said as he waited to
pass through a guard checkpoint.
“There’s no way I’m coming back. To
what? That don’t make sense. I’m
going to start a new life.”
Hillary Snowton, 40, sat on the
sidewalk outside with a piece of white
sheet tied around his face like a bandanna as he stared at a body that had
been lying on a chaise lounge for four
days, its stocking feet peeking out
from under a quilt.
“It’s for the smell of the dead
body,” he said of the sheet. His brother-in-law, Octave Carter, 42, said it
has been “every day, every morning,
breakfast lunch and dinner looking at
it.”
When asked why he didn’t move
further away from the corpse, Carter
replied, “it stinks everywhere, Blood.”
Dan Craig, director of recovery at
the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, said it could take up to six
months to get the water out of New
Orleans, and the city would then need
to dry out, which could take up to
three more months.
A Saks Fifth Avenue store billowed
smoke Saturday, as did rows of warehouses on the east bank of the Mississippi River, where corrugated roofs
buckled and tiny explosions erupted.
Gunfire — almost two dozen shots —
broke out in the French Quarter overnight.
In the French Quarter, some residents refused or did not know how to
get out. Some holed up with guns.
As the warehouse district burned,
Ron Seitzer, 61, washed his dirty laundry in the even dirtier waters of the
Mississippi River and said he didn’t
know how much longer he could stay
without water or power, surrounded
by looters.
“I’ve never even had a nightmare
or a beautiful dream about this,” he
said as he watched the warehouses
burn. “People are just not themselves.”
Mobile cruise ship pressed into service as evacuee shelter
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All guests whose bookings were
canceled will be offered full refunds
and will have the opportunity to rebook their cruises on any Carnival
ship, officials said. Those guests who
do rebook will receive a
$100-per-person shipboard credit, officials said.
In all, three Carnival ships will be
used as shelters, with initial plans
calling for the Holiday to remain in
Mobile while it serves as a shelter,
cruise line officials said.
The Ecstasy, normally based in
Galveston, Texas, and the Sensation,
normally based in New Orleans, will
be pulled from service starting Monday. Initial plans call for both ships to
be docked in Galveston.
The Holiday, based in Mobile, will
be pulled from service Thursday, Carnival officials said in a news release.
“We sincerely apologize to those
guests whose vacations have been impacted by these voyage cancellations,” Bob Dickinson, Carnival
president and CEO, said in the news
release.
“However, given that Hurricane
Katrina is the worst natural disaster
in U.S. history, we trust our guests
will understand that the decision to
enter into these charters was the
right one. This inconvenience to our
guests will provide desperately
needed housing for thousands of individuals affected by this tragedy.”
Mobile Mayor Mike Dow said he
plans to make sure that FEMA recognizes Mobile’s position and what the
loss of revenue could mean to the
city.
“I will expect a seat at the table
with FEMA and they will make the city
whole with the loss of the ship for the
next six months with a reimbursement to help with the debt and the
operation of the cruise port,” Dow
said Saturday.
“We’re being called upon as a city
and a community to aid our neighbors
in New Orleans and that’s going to require a commitment and we need to
understand that. (But) I intend to
make a win-win situation out of it.”
Dow said he and Gov. Bob Riley
discussed the possibility of the FEMA
arrangement as far as five days ago,
but wasn’t sure what the outcome
would be.
“All this just came to bear Friday,”
Dow said.
Steve Cape, co-owner of Springdale Travel, said he thinks Carnival’s
decision to use the cruise ships to
house evacuees is a good idea, but
one that may strongly impact Mobile’s cruise economy just as it’s setting sail.
Cape said Saturday that he plans
to travel to south Miami to talk to executives with other cruise lines about
the possibility of getting another ship
into Mobile to replace the Holiday.
“We’ve got a lot of people booked
on this ship,” Cape said of the Holiday. “There may be some hope that
Mobile gets a ship to replace the one
we lost to FEMA and that is my hope
that that will happen.
“We certainly recognize the need
to take care of FEMA and the efforts
for the victims,” he said. “We’ve got to
do the best thing to take care of those
guys. I’ve got to see what I can do to
take care of our customers.”
Cape said Royal Caribbean Cruise
Lines’ Grandeur of the Seas, and Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Norwegian Sun,
both of which are used on Alaskan
cruises, were scheduled to winter in
New Orleans.
Cape, who spent most of the day
Saturday calling customers about the
change, said he had expected the Holiday’s cruises to be sold out over the
next six months.
The 46,052-ton Holiday entered
service in 1985 and has a passenger
capacity of 1,800.
Carnival shipboard employees will
be staffing the chartered ships. The
Holiday has approximately 660 employees.
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MIAMI — Tropical Storm
Maria was gathering strength
from warm ocean water but remained over the open Atlantic
on Saturday night and posed
no immediate threat to land.
The National Hurricane Center said Maria could become a
hurricane today.
At 10 p.m. CDT, the storm
had maximum sustained wind
of 70 mph — 20 mph higher
than its measured speeds
earlier Saturday morning —
and was about 695 miles eastsoutheast of Bermuda.
It was moving to the northnorthwest, a track that could
take it east of Bermuda, at 14
mph, forecasters said.
Maria would be the season’s
fifth hurricane if its sustained
wind speed reaches 74 mph.
Maria is the 13th named
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French fire kills 12
A fire tore through a highrise apartment building south
of Paris early Sunday, killing at
least 12 people and injuring 16.
The blaze broke out in the
entrance hall of a 15-story
housing project in the Val-deMarne region south of the capital. The fire was quickly extinguished, but people had died
from toxic smoke.
About 200 firefighters rushed
to the scene after the fire be-
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gan before dawn in the town
of L’Hay-les-Roses.
Chirac hospitalized
French President Jacques
Chirac has been hospitalized
after suffering a blood vessel
problem in his eye, the prime
minister said Saturday.
Chirac, 72, was alert and consulting with advisers after being taken Friday evening to a
Paris military hospital, said
Prime Minister Dominique de
Villepin after visiting the president for about an hour Saturday.
Villepin said he had found
the president in “good form. He
can’t wait to leave.” Villepin declined to answer any more
questions.
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Flooding and landslides triggered by Typhoon Talim has
killed at least 53 people on
China’s mainland and left 21
missing, the government said
Saturday.
Talim roared ashore Thursday, wrecking houses, damaging roads and knocking out
power and phone services.
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MOBILE REGISTER
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2005
All three suspects in Aruba are released
៑
Police insist the
probe will continue,
but legal experts say
the releases indicate
that the prosecution
has no case
Satish Kalpoe,
18, center, and
his brother
Deepak, 21,
right, walk with
their lawyers
David Kock, far
left, and Ruud
Oomen, second
left, as they are
released from
jail in Aruba on
Saturday. “It’s a
happy day for
the Kalpoe family,” said Kock.
By MICHAEL NORTON
Associated Press Writer
SINT NICOLAAS, Aruba — All
three suspects in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager were released from jail
Saturday in a setback for the
prosecution and the biggest
blow yet to Natalee Holloway’s
family.
Joran van der Sloot, an
18-year-old Dutchman, and two
Surinamese brothers, Satish
Kalpoe, 18 and Deepak Kalpoe,
21, were released on condition
they remain in Dutch territory
and be available to police for
questioning.
The
Kalpoe
brothers
emerged from prison dressed
in jeans, carrying black plastic
bags and accompanied by their
lawyers.
“It’s a happy day for the Kalpoe family,” said David Kock,
an attorney for Satish.
At his home later, van der
Sloot came out smiling, flung
an arm around his father’s
neck and squeezed his mother’s shoulder. He did not address reporters.
“We would like to express
our happiness to have Joran
back in our lives,” said his
mother, Anita. “His life has
been turned upside down.”
She said her family had been
the victim of “slander based on
rumor and gossip. It is easy to
destroy the lives of people, especially through the press.”
Van der Sloot’s lawyer, Richie Kock, said the teenager
would soon be going to university in Holland: “Joran will be
trusted to be on his own in Holland and to do as he pleases,”
he said. “We do not have a parole system.”
As a Dutch citizen, van der
Sloot is allowed to leave Aruba
but must remain in Dutch territory, said Richie Kock. The Surinamese
brothers
must
Photos by LESLIE MAZOCH/Associated Press
“For the rest of my life, I will continue to
be the voice for my daughter, seeking
justice in Aruba.”
— Beth Holloway Twitty, mother of missing
Alabama teen Natalee Holloway
remain on the island because
they have different visa requirements for traveling to other Dutch territories, said David
Kock.
The missing teen’s mother,
Beth Holloway Twitty, renewed
her criticism of the investigation.
“If the investigation had been
handled properly during the
first 10 days, the world would
not have witnessed and experienced the pain and suffering
my family and I have endured,”
Holloway Twitty said. “For the
rest of my life, I will continue to
be the voice for my daughter,
seeking justice in Aruba. Every
parent would want the same
justice for their child.”
The Holloway family has insisted that all three young men
know what happened to the Alabama honors student, who
vanished May 30 on the last
day of a vacation to celebrate
her high school graduation.
Despite Saturday’s releases,
police insist the investigation
into Holloway’s widely publicized disappearance will continue, but legal observers in
Aruba say the release indicates
the government has no case.
“The prosecution doesn’t
know what criminal act occurred — acts which might be
murder, kidnapping, rape,”
said Arlene Skipper, a lawyer
who has kept track of the case.
“It is still a missing person
case.”
Van der Sloot and the brothers were arrested June 9 on
suspicion of involvement in
Holloway’s disappearance. All
three have denied any connection to the disappearance.
Holloway was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot
and the Kalpoe brothers. Her
family has often been critical of
Aruban authorities’ handling of
the case, especially for taking
10 days to arrest the three
young men and two weeks to
search van der Sloot’s home.
Authorities also have been
criticized for not giving the FBI
enough access to documents in
the case. Prosecutors eventually agreed to a request from
Aruba Prime Minister Nelson
Oduber that the FBI be given
access to all documents, including transcripts of interrogations.
Police and thousands of volunteers have scoured Aruba
without finding a sign of Holloway, often chasing apparently
false leads.
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MOBILE REGISTER
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2005
300 U.S.
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Insurgents kill 19 Iraqi forces
Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Insurgents killed 19 Iraqi security
forces Saturday in clashes
around Baqouba, while U.S.
and Iraqi forces intensified an
offensive in a rebel-infested
city that the Americans subdued last year — only to have
the Iraqis lose control.
Eight policemen died in a
pair of shootouts in Baqouba,
35 miles northeast of Baghdad,
officials said. Six policemen
and two soldiers were killed in
another gunbattle in Buhriz, a
suburb of Baqouba, officials
said.
Three Iraqi soldiers also died
Saturday when their convoy
was attacked by gunmen near
Adhaim, 30 miles north of Baqouba, police said.
To the north, fighting raged
for a second day Saturday in
the outskirts of Tal Afar, an
ethnically mixed insurgent
stronghold.
U.S. and Iraqi officials urged
civilians to leave affected areas
of the city, 260 miles northwest
of Baghdad, a sign that the
Americans were preparing a
major assault. U.S. forces
crushed insurgents in Tal Afar
last fall, leaving only about 500
American soldiers behind and
handing over control to the Iraqis.
But Iraqi authorities lost control of the city, and insurgent
ranks swelled. That forced the
U.S. command to shift the 3rd
Armored Cavalry Regiment
from the Baghdad area to Tal
Afar to restore order.
On Saturday, U.S. and Iraqi
forces were firing at insurgents
on the western side of the city,
Iraqi officials said. Elsewhere,
American and Iraqi forces were
moving
house-to-house,
searching for weapons and arresting men capable of firing
them, Iraqi authorities said.
Hospital officials said they
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — While the Army ordered its Louisiana-based
troops to stay and fight in
Iraq, the Air Force said Saturday it would send 300 airmen
home from Iraq and Afghanistan to handle emergencies
on a Mississippi air base devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
The airmen, all based at
Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, will start flying home
during the next two weeks,
said Air Force Capt. David
Small, spokesman for U.S.
Central Command Air Forces
in Qatar.
Nearly 100 more airmen
scheduled to leave Keesler
for war duty also will stay behind, said Brig. Gen. Allen G.
Peck, the deputy commander
of coalition air forces in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
“While our focus remains
on fighting the war on terrorism, taking care of people is a
top priority,” Peck said in a
statement. “They can’t effectively perform the mission if
their heads and hearts are focused on the safety and welfare of their loved ones.”
The group includes airmen
scheduled to rotate home in
September and others whose
deployments will be cut
short.
Peck said Air Force personnel from other bases will replace those leaving early or
being held back.
But U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq won’t have their
deployments cut back.
Army officials in Iraq and
Washington have said National Guard troops from Louisiana and elsewhere on the
hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast
will only be granted emergency leave if their family members are dead or injured.
៑
Meanwhile, U.S.
offensive intensifies in
rebel-controlled city
By OMAR SINAN
Associated Press Writer
HAMEED RASHEED/Associated Press
Mohammed Ziyad reacts outside a hospital after carrying the bodies of his brother, Hameed, and his father, Ziyad Tariq, who were
killed Saturday in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq.
Four civilians were killed and 11 injured when three mortar shells
fired at a U.S. installation missed the target and landed in a residential area, police said.
were unsure of casualties because it was too dangerous for
ambulances to reach the area.
Officials said they hoped to get
ambulances into the area Sunday.
Elsewhere, four civilians
were killed and 11 wounded
when four mortar shells fired
at a U.S. installation missed the
target and exploded in a mixed
residential and commercial
area of Samarra, the U.S. military and Iraqi police said.
The blasts shattered shops
and left pools of blood on the
dusty streets of the city, 60
miles north of Baghdad. Doctors and nurses at the local
hospital struggled to bandage
the wounded, some of them
with horrific shrapnel wounds.
Doctors hovered over one man
with bone protruding from his
left leg.
A 10-year-old boy lay naked
on a bed, his head, arm and leg
swathed in bandages. Rumors
spread that the Americans
fired the rounds, but U.S. and
Iraqi officials insisted they did
not.
“We were at work and were
hit by a mortar round while
trying to earn bread for our
children,” shouted one man
who would not give his name.
“It was a workshop, for God’s
sake. Where is the government? Where is the Cabinet?
How long will the Americans
continue to do this? No religion
accepts these acts, not even
the Christians.”
Gunmen also abducted three
Iraqi contractors after they left
the U.S.-run Taji air base some
10 miles north of Baghdad, police Lt. Miqdad al-Khazragi
said.
U.S. and Iraqi soldiers killed
one insurgent and arrested 10
others in operations starting
late Friday in the Mosul area,
the military said.
U.S. and Iraqi officials had
hoped that a new constitution,
finalized Aug. 28 after weeks of
intense negotiations, would
help bring Iraq’s factions together and in time lure Sunni
Arabs away from the Sunnidominated insurgency.
Instead, the bitter talks
sharpened communal tensions,
at a time when both Sunnis and
Shiites accused extremists
from the other community of
killing their civilians. Discreet
talks are under way to make
changes in the language of the
draft to ease Sunni Arab hostility to the document.
AFGHANISTAN
Bodies of
Briton,
Japanese
are found
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — A
kidnapped British engineer
was found dead Saturday
and two bodies discovered
in Afghanistan’s southern
desert were identified as
missing Japanese tourists,
raising fears that elections
later this month may be disrupted by militant violence.
U.S.-led coalition troops
raiding a Taliban hide-out in
the Afghan mountains found
the body of a Briton believed to be David Addison,
Britain’s Foreign Office said
Saturday.
The bodies of the two Japanese were found Thursday
in the desert near a road
leading from Kandahar to
the Pakistani border. They
had been missing since Aug.
8, when they crossed into
Afghanistan from Pakistan
on holiday. Autopsies indicated the dead were Jun Fukusho, 44, and Shinobu
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