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| Tuesday, September 11, 2007 | The Red & Black
UGA TODAY
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the story “Screening to
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Debbie Dietzler.
She is the executive
director of the
University’s Alumni
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New al-Qaida video to feature terrorist leader
CAIRO, Egypt Osama
bin Laden will appear for
the second time in a week
in anew video to mark the
anniversary of the Sept. 11
attacks, presenting the last
will and testament of one
of the suicide hijackers, al-
Qaida announced Monday.
Each year, al-Qaida has
released videos of last
statements by hijackers on
the anniversary of the 2001
attacks, using the occasion
to rally its sympathizers.
But this year’s releases
underline how bin Laden is
re-emerging to tout his
leadership whether sym
bolic or effective —of the
jihad movement. While
past anniversary videos
featured old footage of bin
Laden, the latest appears
likely to include a newly
made speech.
Bin Laden had not
appeared for nearly three
years until anew video was
released over the weekend.
In that video, he addressed
the American people, tell
ing them the war in Iraq is
a failure and taking on a
new anti-globalization
rhetoric. He urged
Americans to abandon
capitalism and democracy
General
requests
support
for war
WASHINGTON A con
gressional hearing that
lawmakers called the most
important of the year
opened like a rock concert
Monday, with crackling
anticipation and screech
ing feedback from the
acoustic speakers. Yet this
show turned out to be
David Petraeus,
unplugged.
Calm, measured,
unflinching, the Iraq war
commander walked law
makers through the latest
turns in the unpopular war,
stopping well short of
promising victory but ask
ing the nation to give esca
lation a chance.
In his Army green, under
sparkling chandeliers,
Petraeus presented statis
tics on conditions in Iraq
that leaped off the page
like fever charts on a hospi
tal bed, indicating the
patient was terribly ill but
might be coming around.
He declared “it is possible
to achieve our objectives in
Iraq over time.”
A protester who called
Iraqis “beautiful people”
and accused Petraeus of
lying was quickly removed
during his remarks. Before
the general spoke, the anti
war activist Cindy Sheehan
was among those arrested
for shouting in the room.
The Wire
and embrace Islam.
Al-Qaida’s media arm,
Al-Sahab, announced the
impending second video
Monday with an advertis
ing banner posted on an
Islamic militant Web forum
where the group often
posts its messages.
The video was likely to
be released within 24 hours
to coincide with Sept. 11,
said Ben Venzke, head of
Intel Center, a U.S. group
that monitors and analyzes
militant messages.
“Coming soon, God will
ing, from the testaments of
the martyrs of the New
York and Washington
attacks: The testament of
the martyr Abu Musab
Waleed al-Shehri, present
ed by Sheik Osama bin
Laden, God preserve him,”
the banner read.
Al-Shehri was one of the
hijackers on American
Airlines Flight 11 that
crashed into the World
Trade Center’s north
tower.
The Web banner includ
ed a still image of bin
Laden from the upcoming
video. Shown raising his
finger, he wears the same
dyed-black beard and the
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GERALD HERBERT | Associated Press
▲ Gen. Petraeus, left, and U.S. Ambassador to
Iraq Ryan Crocker, take a break from their tes
timony on the future course of the war in Iraq.
NATION
Democrats were careful
to exempt the general from
their contempt of President
Bush’s course.
“This is not a knock on
you,” California Democrat
Rep. Tom Lantos told
Petraeus and Ryan Crocker,
ambassador to Iraq. But he
said they had come to
Congress to “restore credi
bility to a discredited poli
cy.”
“With all respect to you,”
he went on, “I don’t buy
it.”
As soon as Petraeus fin
ished, three more protest
ers shouted from the back
and were ejected. One of
them, a woman wearing a
cardboard crown saying
“Pull Out,” screamed “No,
no, no!” as security guards
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▲ This frame grab taken from an undated video message shows bin
Laden speaking in the first new video of him in three years.
same clothes white robe
and round cap and beige
cloak that he had on in
the video posted on the
Web on Saturday.
Saturday’s video was
took her arms and tugged
her out of the room.
“There will be no distur
bances,” he vowed, after
half a dozen had already
taken place.
There was tension, too,
among the lawmakers.
Republicans objected to an
ad taken out by Move On.
org that accused Petraeus
of “cooking the books for
the White House,” and they
demanded that Democrats
disassociate themselves
from the sentiment.
Generals command keen
attention on Capitol Hill
even William Westmoreland,
speaking to a joint session
of Congress at the height
of the tempest over
Vietnam, was interrupted
19 times for applause in a
half-hour speech in 1967.
Associated Press
Spears’ comeback flops at VMAs
LAS VEGAS As in most train
wrecks, it was hard to focus on just one
thing as the Britney Spears disaster
unfolded on MTV’s Video Music Awards.
There was just so much that went wrong.
Out-of-synch lip-synching. Lethargic
movements seemingly choreographed by
a dance instructor for a nursing home.
The paunch in place of Spears’ once-taut
belly. At times she just stopped singing,
as if even she knew nothing could save
her performance.
Designed to drum up excitement for
her upcoming album, Spears’ kickoff to
the Video Music Awards Sunday night
became another example of how far she
has fallen. It would have been under
standable if MTV’s show had been
crushed under the weight of the opening
fiasco yet somehow it rebounded, and
even flourished.
The show banked heavily on its own
reinvention. After poor reviews and a
decline in ratings over the last few years,
MTV moved the show to Las Vegas,
shortened it from three hours to two,
went to a hostless format and focused
more on performances than awards.
Justin Timberlake and Timbaland,
Kanye West, Fall Out Boy and the Foo
Fighters hosted separate suite parties
where most of the performances took
place.
But the performance most people will
be talking about was Spears’. And unlike
her last appearance at the VMAs, when
she locked lips with Madonna in 2003, it
will be for all the wrong reasons.
“It definitely could have been a lot bet
ter,” the hitmaking singer and producer
Akon commented afterward. “She
seemed nervous ... you could tell by the
expression on her face. Instead of just
blocking everybody out and doing her
thing, you could tell she was thinking
about it.”
After that, though, the changes to the
show worked, leading to several exciting
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probably filmed in early
August and it is likely “that
the (upcoming video)
shows bin Laden in the
same setting,” Venzke said.
Last year, al-Qaida
Note links leftist
group to bombings
VERACRUZ, Mexico
Mexican gas and oil pipe
lines were attacked in six
places before dawn
Monday, causing explo
sions, fires and gas leaks
that forced the evacua
tion of thousands of peo
ple.
The blasts reverberat
ed for miles. No direct
injuries were reported,
although civil defense
agencies said two women
in their 70s who lived
nearby died of heart
attacks shortly afterward.
A small, shadowy left
ist group linked to similar
attacks in July left a note
claiming responsibility, a
police official in the Gulf
coast state of Veracruz
told The Associated Press.
He spoke on condition of
anonymity because he
was not allowed to be
quoted by name.
The note was found
alongside at least one
undetonated explosive
device uncovered by sol
diers in a swampy area
about 550 yards away
from a highway toll booth
25 miles north of the port
of Veracruz, the official
said.
The government did
not immediately verify the
information. Interior
Secretary Francisco
Ramirez said the federal
Attorney General’s Office
was trying to determine
who was responsible for
the “premeditated acts.”
released documentary talk
ing about the planning of
the attacks that hit the
World Trade Center and
the Pentagon.
—Associated Press
“Pemex’s fundamental
installations are ade
quately protected by our
armed forces, and we will
do our utmost to find
those responsible,”
Interior Secretary
Ramirez said.
The six blasts hap
pened about 2 a.m.,
according to a statement
from the Mexican state oil
monopoly Petroleos
Mexicanos, or Pemex. The
company immediately
shut down the affected
lines as well as an extra
line in the area as a pre
caution.
Flames from the fires
could be seen up to six
miles away, said Pedro
Jimenez, who was pack
ing his family into a truck
to leave. “You could see
the fields of crops lit up.”
Pemex said domestic
gas and gasoline service
would not be affected.
At four sections of the
pipelines, fires broke out,
while at others leaking
gas prompted fears of
explosions and forced civil
protection authorities to
evacuate several commu
nities including Ciudad
Cardel and Antigua, said
state Civil Protection
Deputy Director Ranulfo
Marquez.
Associated Press
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▲ Britney Spears performs at the
MTV Video Music Awards on
Sunday in Las Vegas.
NAMES & FACES
performances and some watercooler
drama. An off-camera fight between
Pamela Anderson exes Kid Rock and
Tommy Lee led Jamie Foxx to quip:
“Stop all this white-on-white violence.”
Timberlake was the night’s big winner,
with four trophies. Rihanna won the cov
eted Video of the Year award, plus
Monster Single of the Year for
“Umbrella.” The Best Group was Fallout
Boy, and Gym Class Heroes won Best
New Artist.
Chris Brown gave one of the evening’s
most extravagant performances —a
dance spectacle that channeled Michael
Jackson, right down to a brief “Billie
Jean” imitation.
Associated Press
WORLD