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Four Days
Man Of The Hour
Of Chaos
AOMAR OUALI
KARIM KEBIR
Associated Press
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) —
The hostage-taking at a
remote Algerian gas plant
was carried out by 30 mili-
tants from across the north-
ern swath of Africa and
two from Canada, authori-
ties said. The militants, who
wore military uniforms and
knew the layout, included
explosives experts who
rigged it with bombs and
a leader whose final order
was to kill all the captives.
The operation also had
help with inside knowledge
— a former driver at the
plant, Algeria’s prime min-
ister said Monday.
In all, 38 workers and 29
militants died, the Algerian
prime minister said Mon-
day, offering the govern-
ment’s first detailed ac-
count of four days of chaos
that ended with a bloody
military raid he defended
as the only way possible to
end the standoff.
Continued on Page 3
Obama launches 2nd term with fiery address
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk along the inaugural parade route during Inauguration Day, in
Washington, Jan. 21, 2013. Obama renewed his oath of office just before midday Monday, ceremonially marking the beginning of
another four years in the White House.
(Doug Mills/The New York Times)
STEVEN R. HURST ple, or substitute spectacle with fire for the center-left The battle lines have been
Associated Press for politics.” political agenda that first drawn between Republi-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- Looking down from the U.S. carried him into the White cans who to reduce the
dent Barack Obama is- Capitol on a flag-waving House four years ago. spiraling U.S. deficit and
sued a powerful defense crowd of hundreds of thou- Gone was the need to debt by cutting gov-
of government in his sec- sand on the National Mall, carefully walk the political ernment programs and
ond inaugural address on the first African-American center line as he looked Obama and congressio-
Monday, laying down a president asserted his de- to re-election. Back was nal Democrats who insist
Algerian firemen carry a
detailed challenge to the termination to keep in a readiness to confront that those programs must
coffin containing the body
deeply conservative politi- place the social safety net the conservative Republi- be maintained, if modified,
of a person killed during
the hostage situation in a cal opposition in Congress for the poor, the ailing and cans who regained major- and supported by higher
gas plant in Ain Amenas, and demanding modera- the elderly. ity control of the House of taxes.
Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. tion from those who “mis- As he launched his sec- Representatives in the 2010
Continued on Page 3
(AP Photo/Anis Belghoul) take absolutism for princi- ond term, Obama spoke congressional election.
2 UP FRONT
Tuesday 22 January 2013
UP FRONT 3
Tuesday 22 January 2013
INSIDE JOB Obama launches 2nd term with fiery address
Continued from front
Continued from front older citizens — programs around the globe. jammed should to shoul-
Five foreigners are still The president said Ameri- created by Democratic “My fellow Americans, der on the National Mall
missing. cans must make hard presidents and cherished we are made for this mo- below.
“You may have heard choices to reduce the by the party. ment, and we will seize it, He challenged those who
the last words of the deficit and debt. “But we Inaugural speeches are of- so long as we seize it to- favor aggressive use of the
terrorist chief,” Algerian reject the belief that Amer- ten short on specifics and gether,” Obama said. He powerful U.S. military, call-
Prime Minister Abdel- ica must choose between polarizing issues and in- also marked a new direc- ing them to remember the
malek Sellal told report- policies of presidents past.
ers. “He gave the order “We are also heirs to those
for all the foreigners to who won the peace and
be killed, so there was a not just the war, who turned
mass execution, many sworn enemies into the sur-
hostages were killed by est of friends, and we must
a bullet to the head.” carry those lessons into this
Monday’s account of- time as well,” said Obama,
fered the first Algerian who is under heavy pres-
government narrative sure from the right-wing
of the standoff, from leadership of U.S. ally Isra-
the moment of the at- el and powerful voices in
tempted bus hijacking Congress to launch military
on Wednesday to the strikes against Iran’s nucle-
moment when the at- ar program.
tackers prepared Satur- Obama, who has become
day to detonate bombs increasingly outspoken
across the sprawling in favor of gay rights and
complex. That’s when same-sex marriage, refer-
Algerian special forces enced the gay-rights riots
moved in for the second of 1969 in his inaugural ad-
and final time. dress, classing them as a
All but one of the dead civil rights watershed along
victims — an Algerian with key moments in the
security guard — were struggles for blacks and
foreigners. The dead women. He said the na-
hostages included sev- tion’s journey is not com-
en Japanese workers, plete “until our gay broth-
six Filipinos, three en- ers and sisters are treated
ergy workers each from like anyone else under the
the U.S. and Britain, two law.”
from Romania and one While he was officially
worker from France. sworn in Sunday, as re-
The prime minister said quired by law, the glitter
three attackers were of Inauguration Day — the
captured but did not President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama pass the presidential box and the White parade down Pennsylva-
specify their nationalities House during the Inaugural parade walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, in nia Avenue toward the
Washington. Thousands marched during the 57th Presidential Inauguration parade after the cer-
or their conditions or say White House, the night of
emonial swearing-in of President Barack Obama.
where they were being (AP Photo/Steve Helber) balls, the ceremonial be-
held. ginning of a new four-year
He said the Islamists in- caring for the generation stead appeal to broad val- tion in foreign policy as the presidential term — still
cluded a former driver that built this country and ues. In laying out an ambi- U.S. prepares to pull troops enlivened staid Washing-
at the complex from investing in the generation tious program for his com- from Afghanistan, ending ton. The celebration was
Niger and that the mili- that will build its future,” he ing four years, the presi- the country’s longest war. pushed to Monday be-
tants “knew the facility’s said. dent used his inaugural ad- “We, the people, still be- cause Jan. 20 fell on a Sun-
layout by heart.” The The Republican opposition dress to urge the country to lieve that enduring security day this year. That placed
vast complex is deep wants to target spending join him in tackling a vast and lasting peace do not the grand ceremony on
in the Sahara, 800 miles cuts on the federal Medi- array of problems, from require perpetual war,” the the U.S. holiday marking
(1,300 miles) south of Al- care health insurance for slowing climate change president said outside the the birthday of revered civ-
giers, with a network of Americans at age 65 and to honoring the dignity of Capitol, looking out across il rights leader Martin Luther
roads and walkways for Social Security pensions for men, women and children a huge crowd of people King. q
the hundreds of workers
who keep it running.
The attackers wore mili-
George H.W. Bush sends Obama regards
tary uniforms, according
to state television, bol-
stering similar accounts
HOUSTON (AP) — Former President Mrs. Obama — and their wonderful treated for nearly two months for a
by former hostages that
George H.W. Bush and his wife, Bar- girls — our best wishes and prayers bronchitis-related cough and other
the attackers didn’t just
bara, are congratulating President on this historic day.” health issues. He served two terms
shoot their way in.
Barack Obama as he begins his sec- “May Almighty God bless them and as Ronald Reagan’s vice president
“Our attention was
ond term. our wonderful country over the next before he was elected in 1988 to his
drawn by a car. It was
The 88-year-old former president is- four years.” only term as the nation’s 41st presi-
at the gate heading to-
sued a statement Monday saying, Bush was released a week ago from dent.
ward the production fa-
“Barbara and I send President and a Houston hospital where he was He was inaugurated Jan. 20, 1989.q
cility. q
4 U.S. NEWS
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Former New York mayor Koch improving in hospital
RUSS BUETTNER
© 2013 New York Times
NEW YORK – When you are
88 years young and still
making a genuine effort to
do some honest work every
day, this is how you are do-
ing.
You, Edward I. Koch, just
walked a few steps from
your car into a SoHo res-
taurant, but your lungs feel
like you just went 12 rounds
with Mario M. Cuomo and
Bella S. Abzug. Then the
four old friends you are
meeting for lunch tell you
that you look like hell. They
are mostly experts in poli-
tics, so you ignore them.
That night, you go to dinner
with two other old friends,
a physician and his wife.
The doctor looks at you,
at your puffed-up ankles,
and tells you to go to the
hospital. Even though he is
a gynecologist, his advice
you take.
And so there you are, on Former Mayor Edward Koch at his apartment in New York, Sept. 29, 2012.
an otherwise lovely Satur- (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
day night in the city you
governed for 12 years, that you must cancel your work quickly announces becomes bombarded with You, being Ed Koch, are
taking oxygen in a bed at weekly appearance on the that you have been hos- calls from reporters turn- ready. Whatever has
NewYork-Presbyterian/Co- “Inside City Hall” program pitalized, and your former ing your signature line as caused extra fluid to take
lumbia hospital. because you have been press secretary and long- mayor – “How ‘m I doin’?” up residence in your lungs
Your aide notifies NY 1 hospitalized. The news net- time friend, George Arzt, – around on you. and ankles, you say, ap-
pears treatable.
“I could die, but not from
this,” you tell Arzt.
You remain the twinkly-
eyed uncle to much of the
city’s political establish-
ment, so telephone calls
stream in, including one on
Monday from Mayor Mi-
chael R. Bloomberg. You
watch the inauguration of
President Barack Obama
on television with a neph-
ew. Your ankles shrink, your
breathing improves, but
the monotony is stubbornly
untreatable.
“There is no pain,” you tell
Arzt, “but it is really boring.”
You hope a merciful re-
lease will come by Wednes-
day. This is, after all, your
third recent hospitalization,
after treatment for a lung
infection in December and
anemia in September.
Your diet has long had two
mainstays: salt and garlic.
The doctors insist you must
give up one, and that has
been hard.
“Koch likes salt,” Arzt says.
And that is how you are
doing.q
U.S. NEWS 5
Tuesday 22 January 2013
US honors King on day of Obama inauguration
church where he was pas- Nicole Hailey, 34, drove all
tor, those gathered in the night with her family from
sanctuary were invited to Monroe, North Carolina.
stay to watch President She attended Obama’s
Barack Obama’s second first inauguration four years
inauguration on a big- ago and was carrying a
screen TV. commemorative Metro
As the nearly three-hour ticket from that day with
service closed at Ebenezer Obama’s face on it.
Baptist Church, organiz- She and her family visited
ers suggested forgoing the the King memorial before
traditional singing of “We the swearing-in.
Shall Overcome” because “It’s Martin Luther King’s
the inauguration would special day,” she said.
begin. “We’re just celebrating
But the crowd shouted pro- freedom.”
tests, so the choir and con- At the ceremonial inau-
gregation sang the civil guration, Obama took
rights anthem before set- the oath on a Bible once
Bernice King, center right, and Christine King Farris, center left, the daughter and sister of Dr. Martin tling in to watch the events owned by King.
Luther King Jr., applaud while watching a broadcast as President Barack Obama is inaugurated
in Washington. He called it “a great privi-
following the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday commemorative service at the Ebenezer Baptist
In the nation’s capital, doz- lege.”
Church in Atlanta Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
ens took pictures of the The King Bible was one of
KATE BRUMBACK come since the 1960s. In Atlanta, at the 45th an- King statue before walking two used; the other had
Associated Press “This is the dream that Dr. nual service for the slain to the National Mall for the belonged to Abraham
ATLANTA (AP) — Com- King talked about in his civil rights icon at the inauguration. Lincoln.q
memorative events for civil speech. We see history in
rights leader Rev. Martin the making,” said Joyce
Luther King Jr. slid seam- Oliver, who observed King
lessly into celebrations of Day by visiting the Nation-
the swearing-in Monday al Civil Rights Museum in
of the first black U.S. presi- Memphis, Tennessee, built
dent, with many Americans on the site of the old Lor-
moved by the reminder of raine Motel, where King
how far the country has was assassinated in 1968.
House votes on raising
debt limit Wednesday
Associated Press require the House and Sen-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Re- ate to approve budgets
publican officials say the that call for spending cuts,
U.S. House of Representa- with pay withheld for law-
tives will vote Wednesday makers in either chamber
on an increase in the na- that failed to do so.
tion’s debt limit, a move The debt limit is $16.4 tril-
designed to prevent a first- lion. The legislation would
ever government default. increase the limit by the
The vote marks a change amount required to fund
in strategy for House Re- U.S. government obliga-
publicans, who run the tions through May 18. But
chamber. They decided that date is not likely a
not to use the debt limit to hard deadline. The Trea-
confront President Barack sury would retain the ability
Obama. to exercise extraordinary
Instead, they have said measures to buy additional
raising the debt limit will time.q
6 U.S. NEWS
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Las Vegas police
Report:
officer dead in
NM teen had homicidal, suicidal thoughts
murder-suicide
KEN RITTER
SUSAN BRYAN his parents’ closet and cut. The gunman, 20-year- have a horrific crime scene
Associated Press
Associated Press waited in a downstairs old Adam Lanza, killed his down there that we are
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mex- bathroom for his father to mother at their home and working on,” Bernalillo
Vegas police lieutenant
ico (AP) — The teenager come home. The state- then killed 20 children and County Sheriff Dan Hous-
and two family members
accused of fatally shoot- ment said he shot his fa- six adults at an elementary ton said Sunday.
are dead after an appar-
ing his parents and three The detectives had finished
ent double murder,
younger siblings with an as- their work at the home by
suicide and arson at a
sault weapon told authori- Monday afternoon.
home in Boulder City, au-
ties he was annoyed with The metal gate at the
thorities said Monday.
his mother and had been home’s entrance was shut,
Clark County Sheriff Doug-
having homicidal and sui- a small bouquet of purple
las Gillespie and other of-
cidal thoughts, according flowers was on the top of
ficials didn’t immediately
to a probable cause state- the gate and at each side
identify the police officer,
ment. there were religious signs,
pending positive identifi-
Nehemiah Griego, 15, re- including one that read
cation and the release of
mained in custody Mon- “Jesus is the reason for the
names by the Clark County
day on charges of murder season.”
coroner.
and child abuse resulting The sheriff’s office identi-
“There was an incident to-
in death. He was arrested fied the victims as Greg
day involving one if Metro’s
following the shootings Griego, 51, his wife Sarah
lieutenants,”
Saturday at a home in a Griego, 40, and three of
a somber Gillespie said in a
rural area southwest of Al- their children: a 9-year-old
2 1/2-minute statement to
buquerque, New Mexico, boy, Zephania Griego, and
reporters at a hastily called
where he lived with his A bouquet of flowers adorns the entrance to a home on Mon- daughters Jael Griego, 5,
news conference. “Several
family. day, Jan. 21, 2013, where a couple and their three young chil- and Angelina Griego, 2.
A Bernalillo County sheriff’s dren were found shot to death south of Albuquerque, N.M. The All appeared to have gun- bodies were discovered.”
couple’s 15-year-old son, Nehemiah Griego, is facing counts of Gillespie, the elected head
detective questioned the shot wounds to the head.
murder and child abuse in connection with the shootings. of the Las Vegas Metro-
teen Saturday night and Greg Griego was a pas-
(AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
politan Police Department,
the details of their conver- tor who had once served
said the lieutenant was a
sation were spelled out in at Calvary, one of Albu-
ther multiple times after school, before shooting 20-year Las Vegas police
the statement. querque’s largest Christian
he passed the bathroom himself as police closed in. veteran. Gillespie spoke
The teen allegedly told the churches. He was also well-
doorway. Lanza’s mother owned the of “untold grief” for family
detective that he took a known throughout the law
The teen said he reloaded gun. members,
.22 caliber rifle from his par- enforcement community
the guns so “he could drive Obama has since called friends and co-workers, but
ents’ closet around mid- for his work as a voluntary
to a populated area to for a ban on assault weap- took no questions.
night Saturday and shot his chaplain.
murder more people,” ac- ons, as well limits on high- He said the investigation
mother in the head while Neighbor Terry Wootan de-
cording to the statement. capacity ammunition in Boulder City, which is
his younger brother slept scribed Griego as a man
His plan, the statement magazines and universal about 20 miles southeast of
next to her. with a big heart.
said, was to “shoot people background checks for Las Vegas, was being han-
Griego told the detective The two sometimes chat-
at random and eventually gun buyers. The powerful dled by police in neighbor-
that his brother did not be- ted at the mailbox and
be killed while exchanging National Rifle Association ing Henderson.
lieve him that their mother would wave to each other
gunfire with law enforce- and its allies in Washington Henderson police spokes-
was dead so he showed his when passing by. Wootan
ment.” are opposed to those re- man Keith Paul said a man
mother’s bloody face to his said Griego told him about
Sheriff’s spokesman Dep- strictions. called 911 at about 8:20
brother and then shot him, his time in California when
uty Aaron Williamson said In New Mexico, detectives a.m. Monday and told a
according to the state- he was involved in gangs
Monday he couldn’t im- have spent two days col- dispatcher he killed his wife
ment. and how he turned his life
mediately comment on lecting evidence and try- and child,
He’s accused of then around and found God.
the document. ing to piece together what set his house afire and
shooting his two young “What he wanted to do
An AR-15 rifle was also led to the violence. would shoot anyone who
sisters in their room. He re- was help people, and he
used in last month’s massa- “There’s no other way approached.q
trieved an AR-15 rifle from would never quit,” Wootan
cre in Newtown, Connecti- to say it, except that we
said. q
U.S. NEWS 7
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Files show how US church leaders controlled damage
GILLIAN FLACCUS Benedict XVI. papers allege. At least 26
Associated Press Caffoe died in 2009, six children told police they
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Re- years after a newspaper were abused during his 10
tired Cardinal Roger Ma- reporter found him work- months in Los Angeles. The
hony and other top Ro- ing at a homeless mission now-defrocked priest is be-
man Catholic Archdiocese two blocks from a Salinas lieved to be in Mexico and
of Los Angeles officials elementary school. remains a fugitive.
maneuvered behind the Mahony was out of town The personnel files of 13
scenes to shield molester but issued a statement other clerics were at-
priests, provide damage Monday apologizing for his tached to the motion to
control for the church and mistakes and saying he had show a cover-up pattern,
keep parishioners in the been “naive” about the said attorney Anthony De
dark, according to church lasting impacts of abuse. Marco, who represents
personnel files. He has since met with 90 the 35-year-old plaintiff. In
The confidential records abuse victims privately and one instance, a memo to
filed in a lawsuit against the keeps an index card with Mahony discusses sending
In this Sept. 22, 2007 file photo, Cardinal Roger Mahony speaks
archdiocese disclose how each victim’s name in his a cleric to a therapist who
during an annual multi-ethnic migration Mass at the Cathedral
the church handled abuse private chapel, where he of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. Cardinal Mahony also is an attorney so any
allegations for decades prays for them daily, he and other top Roman Catholic officials maneuvered behind incriminating evidence is
and also reveal dissent said. The card also includes the scenes to shield molester priests, provide damage control protected from authorities
from a top Mahony aide the name of the molesting for the church and keep parishioners in the dark, according to by lawyer-client privilege.
who criticized his superiors priest “lest I forget that real church personnel files. Mahony, who is retired, issued a state- In another instance, arch-
ment Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, apologizing for his mistakes and
for covering up allegations priests created this appall- diocese officials paid a se-
saying he had been “naive” about the lasting impacts of abuse.
of abuse rather than pro- ing harm.” cret salary to a priest exiled
(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
tecting children. “It remains my daily and to the Philippines after he
Notes inked by Mahony fervent prayer that God’s them deported if they told, parish south of Mexico City. and six other clerics were
demonstrate he was dis- grace will flood the heart the files show. When parents complained accused of having sex with
turbed about abuse and and soul of each victim, The files are attached to the Rev. Nicholas Agui- a teen and impregnat-
sent problem priests for and that their life journey a motion seeking punitive lar Rivera molested in LA, ing her. The exhibits offer
treatment, but there also continues forward with damages in a case involv- church officials told the a glimpse at some 30,000
were lengthy delays or ever greater healing,” Ma- ing a Mexican priest sent to priest but waited two days pages to be made public
oversights in some cases. hony wrote. “I am sorry.” Los Angeles in 1987 after he to call police — allowing as part of a record-setting
Mahony received psycho- The church’s sex abuse was brutally beaten in his him to flee to Mexico, court $660 million settlement. q
logical reports on some policy was evolving and
priests that mentioned the Mahony inherited some
possibility of many other of the worst cases from his
victims, for example, but predecessor when he took
there is no indication that over in 1985, J. Michael
he or other church leaders Hennigan, an archdiocese
investigated further. attorney, said in a separate
“This is all intolerable and series of emails. Priests were
unacceptable to me,” Ma- sent out of state for psy-
hony wrote in 1991 on a file chological treatment be-
of the Rev. Lynn Caffoe, a cause they revealed more
priest suspected of locking when their therapists were
boys in his room, videotap- not required to report child
ing their crotches and run- abuse to law enforcement,
ning up a $100 phone sex as they were in California,
bill while with a boy. Caf- he said.
foe was sent for therapy At the time, clergy were
and removed from ministry, not mandated sex abuse
but Mahony didn’t move reporters and the church
to defrock him until 2004, a let the victims’ families de-
decade after the archdio- cide whether to contact
cese lost track of him. police, he added.
“He is a fugitive from jus- In at least one case, a
tice,” Mahony wrote to the priest victimized the chil-
Vatican’s Cardinal Joseph dren of illegal immigrants
Ratzinger, who is now Pope and threatened to have
8 WORLD NEWS
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Inner circle confident Chavez to return home
FABIOLA SANCHEZ with his brother in Havana, of his treatment and next The president has been democratic institutions in
Associated Press though he didn’t specify is to enter a “new phase of undergoing treatments for the country have been
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) when or say how the presi- treatment,” which he said cancer since June 2011 degraded and “every-
— One of Hugo Chavez’s dent looked. He said that would be announced. but has declined to specify thing revolves around the
brothers said Monday that Chavez remained in Cuba “He’s climbing the hill. He the type of pelvic cancer personal ambition of Hugo
the Venezuelan president accompanied by his chil- is becoming stabilized in all he is fighting or the loca- Chavez to remain in power
is expected to return home dren. Vice President Nico- his values,” Maduro said, tion of tumors that have in spite of the destruction
from Cuba in the coming las Maduro said in a tele- without giving details. been removed. of the country.” He said
days as he continues to vised interview on Sunday The opposition has de- Chavez’s allies in the Na- the other branches of gov-
recover nearly six weeks that Chavez is finishing with manded more information tional Assembly indefinitely ernment are acting in sub-
after undergoing cancer a “post-operative” phase about Chavez’s condition. postponed the president’s mission to the executive
surgery. inauguration, which had branch. Baduel also ac-
Argenis Chavez, one of the been scheduled for Jan. cused the military’s current
president’s five brothers 10. The opposition has ar- commanders of taking ac-
and the president of the gued that was unconsti- tions that “infringe on these
National Electric Corpora- tutional, but the Supreme constitutional precepts.”
tion, told The Associated Court sided with the gov- “I’m sure that the demo-
Press that the president ernment and ruled that the cratic spirit of the Venezu-
continues to recover. president could take the elan majority will form a
He said after an event at oath of office before the common front to return
the Supreme Court that court at a later date. to the democratic path
the decision about when A jailed former defense through the orchestration
Chavez returns is up to his minister, Raul Baduel, has of non-violent political de-
medical team, but that joined other government fiance,” Baduel said.
he is expected to return to critics in accusing the pres- The former military chief
Venezuela in the “coming ident’s allies of trampling was convicted of em-
days.” The president hasn’t on democratic norms. bezzlement and abuse of
been seen or spoken pub- “A falsification of the state power, but has insisted he
licly since he left for Cuba Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro arrives at the has been taking shape,” is innocent and dismissed
Supreme Court to mark the start of the judicial year in Caracas,
on Dec. 10 for his fourth Baduel told the AP in writ- the case against him as
Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. Maduro said he’s optimistic
cancer-related operation. ten responses to a ques- a politically motivated re-
that President Hugo Chavez will soon return to Venezuela
Argenis Chavez said he following cancer-related surgery in Cuba. tionnaire over the week- prisal for his opposition to
recently saw and talked (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) end. Baduel said that Chavez.q
Egypt’s Morsi opposes French intervention in Mali
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) to the takeover by Islamic Egypt’s oldest Islamist er nearly two years ago Egyptian security forces
— Egypt’s Islamist president militants of a gas complex group — the Muslim Broth- of autocratic leader Hosni and targets across the bor-
on Monday stated his op- last week in that nation’s erhood — said he would Mubarak. However, Morsi’s der in Israel.
position to France’s military remote southeast. Thirty- have preferred to see a critics claim that he is using Morsi also maintains close
intervention in Mali, saying eight hostages and 29 mili- “peaceful and develop- his authority to facilitate ties to Gaza’s militant
its actions there would cre- tants died in the attack. mental” intervention in Brotherhood control of the Hamas, whose followers
ate a “new conflict hot- The Masked Brigade, the Mali. There was no immedi- country and that his ulti- share the ideology of the
spot” that separates the group that claims to have ate reaction from France mate goal is to turn Egypt Brotherhood but is branded
Arab north from its African masterminded the take- on the comments Morsi into an Islamist state. a terrorist organization by
neighbors to the south. over, has warned of more made in Riyadh. Morsi is Egypt also has its own Israel, the U.S. and the Eu-
Addressing the opening such attacks against any expected to visit Paris on problems with militants. ropean Union. He brokered
session of an Arab eco- country backing France’s Feb. 1. Since Mubarak’s ouster, a truce between Hamas
nomic summit in Saudi Ara- involvement in Mali. French The Brotherhood is more the nation’s Sinai Penin- and Israel in November
bia, Mohammed Morsi also forces there are trying to moderate than the ultra- sula bordering Gaza and and has significantly re-
declared his support for help stop an advance by conservative Salafi groups Israel has become nearly laxed Egypt’s Mubarak-era
Algeria against threats to Islamic extremists. that gained political em- lawless, with militants stag- siege of Gaza to allow the
its security — a reference Morsi, who hails from powerment after the oust- ing deadly attacks against passage of goods.q
WORLD NEWS 9
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Vienna trains crash head-on, 41 people injured
VIENNA (AP) — Two trains with the two trains head-
packed with morning com- ing in opposite directions
muters crashed head-on on a single set of tracks.
Monday on Vienna’s out- The signal would have nor-
skirts after a state railway mally warned one of them
employee apparently for- to wait on another set of
got to activate a signal. tracks until the other one
Railway officials said 41 passed.
people were injured, five The statement said the ac-
seriously. cident was apparently due
A statement from OBB, Aus- to “human error of the re-
tria’s state railway, said ini- sponsible supervisor.”
tial investigations show that Two helicopters from the
a supervisor neglected to Austrian motor club OAMTC
trip a signal after manually joined ambulance crews
activating a rail switch. The in evacuating the wagons
switch usually works auto- after the early morning ac-
matically and sets off the cident.
signal but was stuck due to OBB said final results of the
snow and ice. investigation will be pub-
The accident occurred lished in the coming days.q
The driver’s cabins are seen destroyed after two regional trains crashed head on in Vienna, Aus-
tria, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. Several people were injured.
(AP Photo/dapd, Hans Punz)

China:
US culpable in Japan island dispute
BEIJING (AP) — China said ing to negotiate. They were Ministry spokesman Hong
Monday that the U.S. has under U.S. control between Lei said at a regular news
“undeniable historical re- 1945 and 1972, when they conference Monday. “The
sponsibility” in Beijing’s were returned to Japan, U.S. comments ignore facts
dispute with Japan over which originally annexed and confuse truth with
islands in the East China them in 1895. untruth. China is strongly
Sea, marking the second China claims sovereignty displeased and firmly op-
straight day that it has over the islands, as does posed to it.”
pinned some of the blame Taiwan. Tensions between Beijing
for the tensions on Wash- Washington acknowledges and Tokyo soared in recent
ington. that the islands are under months after Japan’s gov-
While Beijing has not asked Japanese administration ernment bought the islands
for outside mediation, its but doesn’t take a position from private Japanese
references to the U.S. ap- on who owns them. owners in September.
pear to be an attempt to Beijing has repeatedly ac- On Sunday, another Chi-
prompt Washington to use cused the U.S. of embold- nese Foreign Ministry
its influence to soften the ening Tokyo by supporting spokesman strongly criti-
stance of Japan, which its control over the islands cized the U.S. over remarks
has steadfastly refused to and stating that any con- by Secretary of State Hillary
hold talks over the islands, flict over them would trig- Rodham Clinton reiterat-
known as Diaoyu in China ger the U.S.-Japan mutual ing longstanding U.S. policy
and Senkaku in Japan. defense pact. and opposing unilateral
Japan argues that it has “The U.S. bears undeniable actions that would under-
sovereignty over the islands historical responsibility,” on mine Japan’s administra-
and therefore there is noth- the issue, Chinese Foreign tion of the islands.q
10 WORLD NEWS
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Coup attempt Russia moves on anti-gay law nationwide
fails in Eritrea
MANSUR MIROVALEV books. tect young Russians have tility to homosexuality is
JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Associated Press The bill is part of an effort been hastily adopted in shared by the political and
© 2013 New York Times MOSCOW (AP) — Kissing his to promote traditional Rus- recent months, including religious elite.
GARSEN, Kenya – Eritrea, a boyfriend during a protest sian values as opposed to some that allow banning Lawmakers have accused
sliver of a nation in the Horn in front of Russia’s parlia- Western liberalism, which and blocking web content gays of decreasing Rus-
of Africa that is one of the ment earned Pavel Sam- the Kremlin and church see and print publications that sia’s already low birth
most secretive and repres- burov 30 hours of deten- as corrupting Russian youth are deemed “extremist” or rates and said they should
sive countries in the world, tion and the equivalent of and by extension contrib- unfit for young audiences. be barred from govern-
was cast into confusion ment jobs, undergo forced
Monday after mutinous medical treatment or be
soldiers stormed the Minis- exiled. Orthodox activists
try of Information and took criticized U.S. company
over the state-run televi- PepsiCo for using a “gay”
sion service, apparently in rainbow on cartons of its
a coup attempt. dairy products. An execu-
According to several peo- tive with a government-run
ple with close contacts television network said in
inside Eritrea, the coup at- a nationally televised talk
tempt failed, with govern- show that gays should be
ment troops quelling the prohibited from donating
would-be rebellion and no blood, sperm and organs
one rising up in the streets. for transplants, while after
But many analysts said it death their hearts should
was only a matter of time be burned or buried.
before President Isaias The anti-gay sentiment was
Afewerki, Eritrea’s brash seen Sunday in Voronezh,
and steely leader for the a city south of Moscow,
past 20 years, is overthrown where a handful of gay
– and most likely from with- activists protesting against
in. the parliament bill were at-
“There’s a lot of dissatis- tacked by a much larger
faction within the armed group of anti-gay activists
forces,” said Dan Connell, who hit them with snow-
Russian police officers detain a gay rights activist during an attempt to hold a gay pride parade in
a professor at Simmons balls.
Moscow, Russia. A controversial bill banning “homosexual propaganda” has been submitted to
College in Boston and the The gay rights protest that
Russia’s lower house of parliament for the first of three hearings Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013.
author of several books on (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel) won Samburov a fine took
Eritrea. “If this is suppressed, place in December. Sec-
it won’t be the end.” a $16 fine on a charge of uting to a wave of protest Denis Volkov, a sociologist onds after Samburov and
In the early 1990s, when “hooliganism.” But if a bill against President Vladimir with the Levada Center, his boyfriend kissed, militant
Isaias took power, Eritrea that comes up for a first Putin’s rule. an independent pollster, activists with the Orthodox
was hailed as a beacon of vote later this month be- Samburov describes the says the anti-gay bill fits the Church pelted them with
hope in Africa, a country comes law, such a public anti-gay bill as part of a “general logic” of a gov- eggs. Police intervened,
of low crime, ethnic har- kiss could be defined as il- Kremlin crackdown on mi- ernment intent on limiting rounding up the gay activ-
mony and can-do spirit legal “homosexual propa- norities of any kind — po- various rights. ists and keeping them for
along the Red Sea. The Er- ganda” and bring a fine of litical and religious as well But in this case, the move 30 hours first in a frozen van
itreans fought for years in up to $16,000. as sexual — designed to has been met mostly with and then in an unheated
trenches and from craggy The legislation being divert public attention from either indifference or open detention center. The Or-
mountaintops to defeat a pushed by the Kremlin growing discontent with enthusiasm by average thodox activists were also
Soviet-backed Ethiopian and the Russian Orthodox Putin’s rule. The lanky and Russians. Levada polls con- rounded up, but were re-
government and win their Church would make it ille- longhaired Samburov is the ducted last year show that leased much earlier.
independence. gal nationwide to provide founder of the Rainbow As- almost two thirds of Russians Those behind the bill say
But the euphoria did not minors with information that sociation, which unites gay find homosexuality “morally minors need to be protect-
last. In the late 1990s, Er- is defined as “propaganda activists throughout Russia. unacceptable and worth ed from “homosexual pro-
itrea and Ethiopia waged a of sodomy, lesbianism, bi- The gay rights group has condemning.” About half paganda” because they
costly war over their shared sexuality and transgender- joined anti-Putin marches are against gay rallies and are unable to evaluate the
border, killing tens of thou- ism.” It includes a ban on in Moscow over the past same-sex marriage; almost information critically. “This
sands of people. Shortly holding public events that year, its rainbow flag wav- a third think homosexuality propaganda goes through
afterward, Isaias rounded promote gay rights. St. Pe- ing along with those of oth- is the result of “a sickness or the mass media and pub-
up political dissidents and tersburg and a number of er opposition groups. a psychological trauma,” lic events that propagate
journalists, dooming them other Russian cities already Other laws that the Kremlin the Levada surveys show. homosexuality as normal
to years in prison.q have similar laws on their says are intended to pro- Russia’s widespread hos- behavior,” the bill reads.q