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JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered
his security chiefs Thursday to make
their top priority finding the attackers
of two Jewish seminary students who
were shot in an ambush in the Old
City’s Muslim Quarter.
Authorities suspected Palestinian
militants were behind the early morn
ing shooting, which killed one student
and seriously wounded the other
Thursday.
“We cannot accept... an attack in
die Old City, in die heart ofjthe capital
of Israel,” the prime minister said.
A spokesman for die Jewish semi
nary that the students attended sug- .
gested it would retaliate by pushing!
Jewish settlement in Arab east,
Jerusalem. C . V
?! “The Arabs will pay for the attack
jfor many years to come,” Ateret
^Cohanim spokesman Matti Dan
*1 • . <r
^promised. Jit
H The students were ambvsshed
shortly after midnight Wednesday as
they walked through a narrow alley in
the Muslim Quarter on the way to their
dormitory.
One or more gunmen crouching
behind a low wall in the alley opened
fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles,
felling one student with a shot to the
leg, police said.
The attackers shot 26-year-old
Gabriel Hirschberg, a Hungarian
immigrant, six more times as he lay on
the ground, and killed him.; i
Thrbb more bullets hit the second
student, who managed to run hundreds
of feet to a group of Israeli border
policeman guarding the home of
Infrastructure Minister Ariel Sharon.
The student, seriously woUnded,
was hospitalized.
At one point, police said it
appeared there had been only one gun
man, but said later there may have been
more. \$hile there was no claim of
responsibility, Netanyahu said the
shooters “appear to be professional
killers.”
? After an emergency Cabinet meet
ing on die attack, Netanyahu ordered a
new police post and beefed-up patrols
in the Old City.
Police.stopped passers-by in the
Muslim Quarter to check their idend- \
ties^and^detained several residents. %
Israel's Channel 2 TV said police were
also investigating whether members of
the Palestinian police were involved.
Ateret Cohanim seminary has
been leading a campaign to settle Jews
in Arab neighborhoods of east
Jerusalem, which they hope to see as
the capital of a Palestinian state.
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IRAQ from page! J. '
brokered by Russia, which
promised to press for the lifting of
sanctions. Iraqi Deputy Prime
Minister Tariq Aziz said Russia had
promised to work for a “just and fair
diplomatic solution.” But he
acknowledged that the U.N.
Security Council’s permanent mem
bers had offered no specific com
mitments.
The United States declared it
was not party to the Russian deal.
“It is not binding on us or on the
U.N.,” Berger said. “It is not some
J thing that we are obligated to in any
respect, or the U.N.”
i The United States said that U-2
spy planes, which Saddam had
'threatened to shoot down, would
continue to fly over Iraq and that
Americans would remain part of the
weapons inspection team.
“There should be no attempt and
no expectation that there will be any
change in either composition of
inspectors or flights that may be
flown or any material change in the
inspection regime that is required,”
Defense Secretary Cohen said at the
U.N. after meeting Secretary
General Kofi Annan.
The White House suggested that
Russia’s promise to seek sanctions
^relief gave Saddam a face-saving
way-out of the crisis* An administer
*^roirtffficial said'RiiiVsMh’PoreiJjf
?MliS#ter Yevgeny^Ptomakov hs^d
delivered a strong message to Aziz
in Moscow earlier this week that the
international community was united
and Iraq had to back down.
Before a decisive foreign minis
ters’ meeting Thumday mdrning in
Geneva, the White House was skep
tical about Russia’s diplomatic
efforts. Afterward, the administra
tion was still reluctant to give
Russia q pat on the back. -
“I’d rather read the last chapter
of this book before I decide whether
I like it or not,” Berger said.
In recent days, Clinton raised
the possibility that the United States
would never allow sanctions to be
lifted as long as Saddam was in
power. Even after Saddam changed
course, White House press secre
tary Mike McCurry said, “Based on
his behavior, it’s hard to see how
there would be any lifting.”
Cohen said, “The fact is that
until there is full compliance {with
U.N, resolutions), there can be no
lifting of the sanctions.”
The United States was con
cerned that the expulsion of inspec
tors allowed Iraq toT make some
advances in its weapons programs.
Berger said the United Nations
would not be able to assess what had
happened until its inspectors were
allowed to go back to work. ,
Even so, Berger said that
Saddam “can’t reconstitute in a
matte): of a few. weeks what (U.N.
ih^&tdgl Igavie been guc^pfu| i$ ;
destfnylng cT^r me fiSSt six ydairs? “
Yet, he said there was “obviously
some loss as each day went — goes
by.”
Massacre sends signal
for new security system
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — President
Hosni Mubarak called an emergency
Cabinet meeting Thursday to draft a
new security plan for Egypt’s tourist
sites, days after the massacre of 58
- foreigners at a Pharaonic temple.
Mubarak also announced creation
of a security committee to supervise
attractions such as Luxor’s Temple of
Hatshepsut, which six Islamic mili
tants stormed Monday, spraying bul
lets at a crowd of tourists from
Europe and Asia. At Thursday’s
Cabinet session, Mubarak instructed
security chiefs to report back within
24 hours on security gaps at Egypt’s
tourist sites.
The security overhaul follows
Mubarak’s renwval of Interior
Minister Hassan el-AIfy, who super
vised the nation’s police, as well as the
Luxor police chief and several lower
level police and government officials.
The outlawed al-Gamaa al
Islamiya, or Islamic Group, which
claimed responsibility for the attack,
derided the government in a state
ment faxed today to a Western news
agency, saying “the firing of el-AIfy
is nnt pnnnoh ”
It offered to declare a cease-fire if
the government meets a string of
demands, none of which Mubarak is
likely to accept: end a government
crackdown on militants; end relations
with Israel; and install strict Islamic law.
By Wednesday, police had identi-,
Tied 54 of the 58 foreigners killed in
the attack. They included 34 Swiss,
eight Japanese, five Germans, four
Britons, a Bulgarian, a Colombian
and a French citizen.
Monday ’s massacre - the overall
death toll of 68 included four
Egyptians and six gunmen - is the
worst violence in the militants’ five
year campaign to oust Mubarak’s sec
ular government. More than 1,000
people have been killed in the rebel
lion, which in recent years has mostly
involved shootouts between militants
and pplice.
The slaughter at the temple, how
ever, makes clear that militants are
once again targeting tourists, as they
did in the early years of their insur
gency. Protecting foreigners is a pre
mium in Egypt, since tourism is a
crucial part of the nation’s economy.
Tightening security at the archae
ological wonders that draw thousands
of tourists to Egypt every year won’t
be easy. The pyramids and the sphinx
rest on a sweeping desert plain that
would be difficult to guard.
And the hundreds of tombs and
monuments outside the southern city
of Luxor are even more open to
approach, stretching for miles along
hilly, arid land on the Nile's West Bank.
Mubarak, on a visit to the massacre
site, called security there “a joke.”
On the day of the shooting, secu
rity at the Hatshepsut monument was
as usual: Two policemen guarded the
entrance to the site, about 200 yards
from the temple itself. There were no
police inside, only the ticket takers
and administrative staff.
The attackers passed through the
entrance, shooting at the police sta
tioned there, according to witness
interviews published today in the Al
Ahram newspaper. It is possible,
however, to avoid the main entrance
when approaching the temple.
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Four out of 50 motorists
survive Anzob avalanche
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan
(AP) - An avalanche buried more
dial a dozen vehicles at a moun
tain pass in Tajikistan, killing as
many as 46 people, emergency
officials said Thursday.
The avalanche hit the Anzob
Mountain pass in this Central
Asian nation two weeks ago, but
the government disclosed the dis
aster only after abandoning hope
...... of finding more survivors or bod
ies.
No other reason for the delay
was given.
Of 50 people who were
buried in 15 trucks and cars
under a 40-foot-deep blanket of
snow, only four were pulled out
alive. Thirteen bodies were
found, and the remaining S3 peo
ple are presumed dead.
Worsening weather prevent
ed further rescue efforts, the gov
ernment said.
• The Anzob pass, one of the
most difficult in Tajikistan, is on
a key highway about 60 miles
north of the capital, Dushanbe, at
a height of 11,000 feet The pass
links Dushanbe with northern
Tajik regions and Uzbekistan.
Hutu rebels ransack
Rwanda prison, kill 290
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP)
Nearly 300 people were killed
when Hutu rebels, apparently try
ing to free their comrades,
attacked a prison in northwestern
Rwanda, a military spokesman
said Thursday.
The dead in Monday night’s
clash at Giciye, about 40 miles
northwest of Kigali, included 200
rebels, 88 prisoners and two sol
diers, army spokesman Richard
Sizibera said.
He said 93 prisoners escaped
and the army was pursuing the
inmates and survivors of the
rebel force, estimated at 1,500.
Sporadic fighting continued
Wednesday night.
The attack occurred in an
area where soldiers of the former
Hutu-dominated government
have attacked Tutsi soldiers and
survivors of a 1994 genocide in
which more than 500,000 people
were killed.
Most of the victims of the
state-orchestrated killings were
minority Tutsis and politically
moderate Hutus.
“The strategy is to complete
the genocide,” Sizibera said.
“Who else is better placed to help
die rebels than people accused of
carrying out the genocide in the
first place?”
i nc inmates ai uiciye were
among thousands of mostly
Hutus charged with carrying out
the genocide who are held in
Rwandan jails awaiting trial.
The slaughter ended after
three months when mostly Tutsi
rebels chased Hutu officials, sol
diers and civilians - more than 1
million in all - across the border
to Congo, formerly Zaire.
Some of the soldiers returned
with refugees to Rwanda late last
year, while an unknown number
are hidden in forests along the
Congo-Rwanda border from
where they launch attacks.
