Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 2003-07-30
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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY RY Dennehy case. • Page 1 PAGE 10 WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2003 SINCE 1868 25¢ L-~- • Outcry ntz ee 1n o cap ure kills U.S. plan for terrorism i 's specia spiri betting DOCUMENTARY WILL FOCUS ON INSPIRATION FOR UPTOWN BILLS SMALL MALL BY BRADLEY GRAHAM AND VERNON LOEB WASHINGTON POST BY ASHLEY HOFFMAN WASHINGTON - The Pen tagon 'fuesday scrapped a plan to establish a futures market that would have allowed investors to bet on the proba bility of coups, assassinations, terrorist strikes, and other events in the Middle East. Confronted by a congressional outcry and widespread expressions of disbelief after news of the,pro gram suddenly emerged Monday, senior Pentagon officiala appeared at a loss to explain how the pro gram ever got as tar as it did Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a Senate hearing that he teamed of the program from a newspaper story he read en route to the hearing, which dealt with post war reconstruction in Iraq. "I share your shock at this kind of program," he said. "We11 find out about it, but it is being tenninated." · At the Pentagon, 'lbny Tether, the director of the agency responsi· ble for overseeing tbe program - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA - issued a statement saying "it sim ply did not make sense to contin ue" the effort "in light of the recent concerns SUJTOunding" it. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., the Whitney Kidder/The Daily Iowan chairman of the Senate Armed Bottom: Volunteer Aaron Satarlano on Tuesday stands behind the counter of the coffee shop in Uptown Bill's Small Mall. Services Committee, said earlier in the day that he had phoned 'Thther to impress on him the need Contributed photo to stop the program immediately. Top: Bill Sukter, the founder of Wild Bill's Coffee Shop and the Inspiration behind Uptown Bill's Small Mall, will be the subject of a documentary by local filmmaker Lane Wyrick. SEE DARPA, PfGE 3 r up ue Coral¥ille U.S. sweep~ net more Saddam bodyguards BY JOHN HENDREN AND hope that by gathering Sad o ropo ed center ESTHER SCHRADER dam's security staff they can LOS ANGELES TIMES ferret out information about the former leader's where TIKRIT, Iraq-U.S. soldiers abouts and security routine. captured two more of Saddam The tactic is key to the U.S.-led Hussein's former bodyguards coalition's effort to stabilize post. here 'fuesday, and a military war Iraq because the elusive Iraqi official said the former Iraqi president continues to at least president is moving every few inspire, ifnot lead, an intensifying hours to evade pursuit. guerrilla-resistance movement An Arab satellite television that has killed approximately one network, meanwhile, played an American soldier each day, on audiotape purported to be Sad average, over the past two weeks. dam, with the voice acknowl The interrogations and other edging the deaths last week of intelligence is apparently pay Uday and Qusay Hussein, the ing off. Saddam's pursuers deposed leader's sons, and say claim they have recent informa ing he would willingly sacrifice tion on his movements, if not "100 children• for the resist his precise whereabouts. D1rlo Lopaz·MIIIa/Associated Press ance if he had them. "We know he's on the run," AU.S . Army soldier guards Adnan Abdullah Abid ai·Mussllt, one of "Thank God for what he des said Maj. Josslyn Aberle, a Saddam Hussein's top bodyguards, who was captured during a1t tined for us, and honored us spokeswoman for the 4th early morning raid Tuesday In Tikrlt, Iraq. ·- with their martyrdom for his Infantry Division. "We know he's sake," the speaker said in the not staying in any one place more be taken dead or alive may be The CIA, meanwhile, was ana· broadcast by Oubai-based Al than a few hours at a time - up to commanders on the lyzing the purported Saddam Arabiya television, which said probably four hours at a time." ground - and to the former tape, comparing it with known il feceived the audiotape on Military officials would not say Iraqi leader himself. samples of Saddam's voice. One 'fuesday. It was the second tape whether the tip on Saddam came Lawrence Di Rita, a special agency official said fina1 results relea8ed in a week purported to from electronic eavesdropping, assistant to Defense Secretary of the analysis would not be be from Saddam. visual surveillance, or Iraqis Donald Rumsfeld, said he was available until today. The raida that netted the seeking a $25-million reward for unaware of any discussions The official, who requested bodyguards were the latest in a his capture or death. But several between Rwnsfeld and U.S. rom· anonymity, said the agency had rica of sweeps aimed at officials have said recently that manders in Iraq over whether the tentatively concluded that Sad rounding up Saddam's former the number of "human intelli U.S. government would prefer dam's voice was heard on four ~~eeurity staff here in his home gence" reports have increased Saddam be taken alive. If taken tapes released to Arab news region, where many were significantly in recent days and alive, he could be put on trial or outlets since U.S. troops cap recruit d and apparently the quality of those reports has interrogated about any hidden tured Baghdad. returned after the war. been proved in raids that net weapons of mass destruction. The capture of the two body Commanders for the U.S. their target subjects. "The decisions made by the guards 'fuesday followed a night Army 4th Infantry Division, "Human intelligence is some individual being pursued will in which soldiers took 29 operating out of opulent mar of the reliable intelligence that prevail in most cases ifhe doesn't detainees in 230 patrols and ble-lined palaces that the oust- we get," Aberle said. wish to be taken alive," Di Rita d I adcr had built atop this At the Pentagon, U.S. offi said. "In many cases, it's difficult CIIW.Vlll, p 3 ancit>nt city on th Tigris River, cials said whether Saddam will to take them alive." See IRAQ, PAGE 3 0 CLEM NT-CV THE DOG DAYS 0 PLASMA INDEX Summertime, and the giving is Arts 5 slowing at the local Classifieds 8 Crossword 6 plasma center. CHECK US OUT AT Opinions 4 tory, page 2 WWW.DAILYIOWAN.COM Sports 10 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Wednesday, July 30, 2003 ~ NEWS Locc Summer slows down for plasma center UPTO Volume 131S J ..u 37 Continue BY LUCY COLLINS also a bonus of $10 for each per decrease of about 20 percent Plasma I acts BREAKING NEWS THE DAILY IOWAN son donors recruit for the center. during summer months. Phone: (319) 335-6063 The money is one of several "Traditionally at [the Iowa • The hui!Min body contains apprOllmately E-mell: druly-iowa Iowa edu • • .. .. .. .. • 5717 At BioLife Plasma Services, col 12 plnll of blood It any ~~Yen Ume. reasons to donate for UI student City] location, it's a lot ofcollege Fn: 335·6184 lege students looking for a little Louis Goral, who said, "It's a cool students," Tarvin said. ''We are • Plasma mallet up 57 percent of Ylt!Oit blood. 1 Average pla\1"8 donations naUonally extra cash make up 55 to 60 per way to get money because you trying to increase awareness in lltf week: 1,000.1,$00. CORRECTIONS cent of the facility's donors, but the a(.tually doing a good are service." order to keep donations up • A~ ann1111 donations natiOIIIIIy per Call' 335·6030 'exodus of students from Iowa City Alison Muller, a IG rkwood throughout the entire year." plasma donor: 18. Polley Tll8 Oill/y Iowan !rives for accu· ' in the summer causes a decrease student and plasma donor, said Goral said that because so • Aver.ge annutl donttlon nltlonllly per racy and frumess in the reporting Dl blood l.8. in the much-needed donations. she tried to find another job many students leave in the donor: news If a report is wrong or ITliSleld~ Julie Tarvin, the manager of when her current employer cut summer, it is easier to get an • Donor reimbursement MtloMIIy 1111' a request for a correctJon or a ,... (...,. ,ear: $l mll~1.5 million. BioLife, 408 S. Gilbert St., said h er h ou rs but then started appointment. bOn ffiZ'I be made. 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