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IU holds conference on EU's expansion

By Michael Zennie · Monday, April 5,2004 12:28 a.m.

Experts on Europe and the former Soviet Union met in Bloomington to attend a two-day conference on the eastward expansion of the European Union. "Public Opinion About the EU in Post-Communist Eastern Europe," an event sponsored by IU, the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation and the University of Oxford took place Friday and Saturday. Professor Robert Rohrschneider of IU and Professor Stephen Whitefield of Oxford organized the conference.

53 militants arrested in coordinated crackdown

By Alyson Brodsy and Selcan Hacaoglu · Friday, April 2,2004 1:21 a.m.

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey, Italy and Belgium arrested 53 militants Thursday in a coordinated crackdown on a Turkish Marxist group considered a terrorist organization by Washington, D.C., Turkey's Interior Ministry said. Police in Istanbul, Turkey, arrested 37 suspects of the Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front, or DHKP-C, while security forces in Italy and Belgium detained 16, an Interior Ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Insurgents attack U.S. convoy in Iraq, 3 injured

By Alyson Brodsy and Sameer N. Yacoub · Thursday, April 1,2004 11:41 p.m.

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- A roadside bomb injured three American troops Thursday near Fallujah, Iraq, a day after the grisly killing and mutilation of four American contract workers in the city. The top U.S. administrator in Iraq said the deaths would not go unpunished.

Woman bomber kills 1 in Uzbekistan

By Alyson Brodsy and Burt Herman · Thursday, April 1,2004 11:28 p.m.

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- A woman detonated a bomb Thursday in central Uzbekistan, killing one person and critically injuring herself, and the government, for the first time, said al Qaeda, was behind this week's attacks that left at least 44 dead, mostly alleged militants.

Madrid issues arrest warrant for suspected terror group leader

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 1,2004 11:27 p.m.

MADRID, Spain -- A 35-year-old Tunisian is believed to have led the group suspected in the railway bombings in Madrid, Spain, according to the international warrant for his arrest released Thursday.

Annan presents Cyprus reunification blueprint

By Alyson Brodsy and Naomi Koppel · Thursday, April 1,2004 12:31 a.m.

FUERIGEN, Switzerland -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan presented his blueprint for the reunification of Cyprus Wednesday and set an April 24 date for islanders to vote on the plan, saying "the time for decision and action has arrived." Turkey's government quickly endorsed the proposal, but the Greek side was more cautious.

U.S. corpses dragged through Iraqi city

By Alyson Brodsy and Sameer N. Yacoub · Thursday, April 1,2004 12:29 a.m.

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Jubilant residents dragged the charred corpses of American contractors through the streets Wednesday, hanging two of them from the bridge spanning the Euphrates River. Five American soldiers died in a roadside bombing nearby. The White House blamed terrorists and remnants of Saddam Hussein's former regime for the "horrific attacks" killing the four civilian contractors.

Suicide bomb attack kills 2

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, March 31,2004 12:43 a.m.

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- An angry miner with dynamite strapped to his chest blew himself up in Bolivia's Congress Tuesday, killing two police officers and wounding 10 others, authorities said.

23 killed in fresh Tashkent fighting

By Alyson Brodsy and Burt Herman · Tuesday, March 30,2004 11:43 p.m.

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- Police and military clashed with suspected terrorists and 23 people were killed in a third day of violence Tuesday that rattled the Uzbek capital during a sweep to round up Islamic militants, witnesses and authorities said. Government forces besieged an apartment building near the presidential residence in northern Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for nearly five hours after confronting the suicide bombers. Gunfire and explosions were heard throughout the day.

Bush to let Rice testify before panel

By Alyson Brodsy and Jennifer Loven · Tuesday, March 30,2004 11:42 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Bush agreed Tuesday to do what he had insisted for weeks he would not: allow National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify publicly and under oath before an independent panel investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Students, professors reflect on Madrid bomb attacks

By Claire Bartel and Clarie Bartel · Tuesday, March 30,2004 11:42 p.m.

Bombs exploded in Madrid trains and subway stations March 11, causing people from all over the world to be affected, including students attending IU. The attacks, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800, have had a direct effect on a number of individuals at IU, either because of personal loss or because they felt an affinity for the victims and those affected.

Return to sovereignty

By Rami Chami · Tuesday, March 30,2004 1:34 a.m.

One year after the start of the recent war in Iraq and two months after arriving in the United States, Barakat Jassem and Rawand Darwesh sit in the dining room of their Bloomington apartment drinking dark tea while reflecting on the past and contemplating the future.

Lecture focuses on terrorism

By Chris Freiberg and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Tuesday, March 30,2004 1:22 a.m.

University of Michigan professor of modern Middle-Eastern history Juan Cole spoke Monday night at Ballantine Hall and heavily criticized the Bush administration's "War on Terror." "The War on Terror is a misnomer," Cole said. "Terror is a technique. You can't make war on a tactic."

Survey: single women don't vote

By Maria Fragnoli · Monday, March 29,2004 1:04 a.m.

If you are a single woman, political candidates need you, according to a new survey. new study released by the non-partisan group Women's Voices, Women Vote states close to 22 million unmarried women were eligible to vote in 2000 but did not. The study also pointed out that if unmarried women voted at the same rate as married women, there would have been 6 million more voters in the last presidential election.

Clarke praises IU for IT programs

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, March 28,2004 11:23 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Former presidential adviser Richard A. Clarke praised IU Friday as the leader in U.S. higher education in protecting vast stores of information in its computer networks from hackers.

Sharon may be asked to step down

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, March 28,2004 11:23 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- Israel's state attorney recommended Sunday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon be indicted for bribe-taking, officials said, in what is seen as a major, but not final, step toward his possible resignation.

9/11 panel blasts Rice for refusing to speak

By Alyson Brodsy and Scott Lindlaw · Sunday, March 28,2004 11:22 p.m.

CRAWFORD, Texas -- White House allies and Republicans investigating the Sept. 11 attacks pressed Sunday to hear testimony from national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, with one commissioner calling her refusal a "political

Al Qaeda tape calls for coup

By Alyson Brodsy and Sarah El Deeb · Friday, March 26,2004 12:59 a.m.

CAIRO, Egypt -- A tape purportedly recorded by Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No. 2 figure in the al Qaeda terror group, called Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf a "traitor" Thursday and urged people to overthrow his government.

EU agrees on anti-terrorism official

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, March 25,2004 11:24 p.m.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European leaders named a former Dutch minister Thursday to coordinate new counterterrorism efforts at their first summit since the deadly Spanish rail bombings exposed the continent's vulnerability to terror attacks.

Former adviser criticizes Bush

By Alyson Brodsy and Hope Yen · Wednesday, March 24,2004 11:26 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The government's former top counterterrorism adviser testified Wednesday that the Clinton administration had "no higher priority" than combatting terrorists while the Bush administration made it "an important issue, but not an urgent issue."