Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Indiana Daily Student
Tuesday, Dec. 24
Subscribe Donate
E-paper
The Indiana Daily Student

world

The Indiana Daily Student

Iraqi woman admits to attempted suicide bomb

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:05 a.m.

AMMAN, Jordan -- Strapped with a disabled explosives belt, an Iraqi woman arrested Sunday confessed on television to trying to blow herself up with her husband in one of three suicide attacks earlier this week that killed 57 people. The 35-year-old woman -- the sister of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's right-hand man who was killed by U.S. forces in Iraq -- appeared on Jordanian state TV hours after she was captured by security forces who were tipped off by an al-Qaida claim that a husband-and-wife team participated in Wednesday's bombings.

The Indiana Daily Student

Bush adviser: Public not misled about Iraq war

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:04 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- While admitting "we were wrong" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, President Bush's national security adviser rejected assertions Sunday that the president manipulated intelligence and misled the American people. Bush relied on the collective judgment of the intelligence community when he determined that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, national security adviser Stephen Hadley said.

The Indiana Daily Student

At least 1 dead as tornadoes rip through central Iowa

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:03 a.m.

WOODWARD, Iowa -- Tornadoes swept across central Iowa on Saturday, ripping up farms, destroying homes in several towns and sending college football fans running from a stadium for shelter. At least one person was killed in the storm, two others were hospitalized and a gas leak forced authorities to evacuate part of Stratford, a town of about 746 residents 50 miles northwest of Des Moines.

The Indiana Daily Student

Al-Qaida claims Jordan bombing

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Nov. 11,2005 12:03 a.m.

AMMAN, Jordan -- Hundreds of angry Jordanians rallied Thursday outside one of three U.S.-based hotels attacked by suicide bombers, shouting, "Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!" after the terrorist's group claimed responsibility for the blasts that killed at least 56 people.

The Indiana Daily Student

Bombing kills 42 people in Iraq

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Tomlinson · Friday, Nov. 11,2005 12:02 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Bombers killed 42 people Thursday at a Baghdad restaurant favored by police and an army recruiting center to the north, while Iraqi troops along the Iranian border found 27 decomposing bodies, unidentified victims of the grisly violence plaguing the country.

The Indiana Daily Student

Judith Miller leaves New York Times

By Alyson Brodsy and David B. Caruso · Wednesday, Nov. 9,2005 10:45 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who was first lionized, then vilified by her own newspaper for her role in the CIA leak case, has retired from the Times, the paper announced Wednesday. Miller, who joined the Times in 1977 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for reporting on global terrorism, had been negotiating with the paper for several weeks about her future.

The Indiana Daily Student

IU student pushes for U.S. 'Department of Peace'

By Ben Woodson · Wednesday, Nov. 9,2005 10:44 p.m.

Something just clicked in Christy Campoll's head when she heard about it. The Department of Peace: What a great idea, she thought. Then Campoll, an IU student, decided she had enough money from a college loan to be able to attend the Department of Peace conference in Berkeley, Calif., last year to learn how to push that idea along. However, she has just started building support here in Bloomington, and that was evident in the four people that attended an informational meeting Oct. 17 at the Monroe County Public Library. Even if it might take a few more tries to get it right, with hundreds of other activists like her doing the same thing all over the country, she hopes support for the creation of the Department of Peace will grow until it finally passes.

The Indiana Daily Student

Suicide attackers strike hotels in Jordan, killing 57

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Nov. 9,2005 10:30 p.m.

AMMAN, Jordan -- Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in the Jordanian capital Wednesday night, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 300 in what appeared to be an al-Qaida assault on an Arab kingdom with close ties to the United States and a common border with Iraq. The explosions hit the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn hotels just before 9 p.m. One of the blasts took place inside a wedding hall where 300 guests were celebrating. Black smoke rose into the night, and wounded victims stumbled from the hotels.

The Indiana Daily Student

Afghanistan's first 5-star hotel opens amid building boom

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Nov. 8,2005 11:49 p.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgent violence wracks the countryside, but a building boom fueled by international aid, profits from the opium trade and foreign investment is remaking Afghanistan's dusty capital. The city even got its first five-star hotel Tuesday.

The Indiana Daily Student

Bush: 'We do not torture'

By Alyson Brodsy and Deb Riechmann · Monday, Nov. 7,2005 11:06 p.m.

PANAMA CITY, Panama -- President Bush defended U.S. interrogation practices Monday and called the treatment of terrorism suspects lawful. "We do not torture," Bush declared in response to reports of secret CIA prisons overseas. Bush supported an effort spearheaded by Vice President Dick Cheney to block or modify a proposed Senate-passed ban on torture.

The Indiana Daily Student

Supreme Court to weigh in on military tribunals

By Alyson Brodsy and Gina Holland · Monday, Nov. 7,2005 11:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is giving no free passes to the commander in chief. Pressed by the Bush administration to stay out of a wartime powers case, the court jumped in anyway. The justices will decide if the president overstepped his authority by ordering military tribunals for terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, resurrecting a type of trial last used during World War II.

The Indiana Daily Student

France imposing curfews as rioting spreads

By Alyson Brodsy and Jocelyn Gecker · Monday, Nov. 7,2005 11:03 p.m.

PARIS -- France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday.

The Indiana Daily Student

Bush: Latin America must defend democracy

By Alyson Brodsy and Deb Riechmann · Monday, Nov. 7,2005 12:15 a.m.

BRASILIA, Brazil -- President Bush didn't name names Sunday when he called on Latin Americans to boldly defend strong democratic institutions and reject any drift back to the days of authoritarian rule. But his remarks were a clear jab at Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The leftist leader and friend of Cuba's Fidel Castro spent the past two days hurling criticism at the United States at the Summit of the Americas in Argentina.

The Indiana Daily Student

Iraqi civilians flee town consumed in violence

By Alyson Brodsy and Robert H. Reid · Monday, Nov. 7,2005 12:14 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Scores of terrified Iraqis fled a besieged town Sunday, waving white flags and hauling their belongings to escape a second day of fighting between U.S. Marines and al-Qaida-led militants along the Syrian border. U.S. and Iraqi troops battled insurgents house-to-house, the U.S. military said.

The Indiana Daily Student

France: Restoring order 'absolute priority'

By Alyson Brodsy and Elaine Ganley · Monday, Nov. 7,2005 12:13 a.m.

PARIS -- French President Jacques Chirac on Sunday promised arrests, trials and punishment for those sowing "violence or fear" across France -- as the urban unrest that has triggered attacks on vehicles, nursery schools and other targets reached central Paris. Youths set ablaze nearly 1,300 vehicles and torched businesses, schools and symbols of French authority, including post offices and provincial police stations, late Saturday and early Sunday.

Trending