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For more information, please contact [email protected]. www.kaimin.org MONTANA KAIMIN Kaimin is a Salish word for paper T uesday April 8, 2003 — Issue 86 Bombing targets Saddam, top aides Ex-UM cop “Bunker busters” At least three buildings were district after U.S. military intel- cally involves ground reconnais- destroyed in Monday’s 2 p.m. ligence was tipped that Saddam, sance or satellite imagery, faces another crush 3 buildings; attack on the western Baghdad his sons Odai and Qusai and though Bartelt would not say 2 bodies recovered district of al-Mansour, other Iraqi leaders might what method was being used. rape charge which broke windows be meeting there, U.S. Those close to Saddam have BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) —The and doors as far as 300 WAR officials said. said the Iraqi leader is so U.S. bombing of an upscale yards from the site. “A leadership target obsessed with security that very Baird accused of IN neighborhood where Saddam Rescue workers look- was hit very hard,” said few people would know about his intercourse without Hussein and top aides were ing in the rubble for vic- IRAQ Marine Maj. Brad movements. He maintains believed to be meeting blasted a tims said two bodies had Bartelt, a spokesman for dozens of residences and uses consent, burglary 60-foot-deep crater, ripped been recovered and the death U.S. Central Command in Qatar. doubles to keep people guessing. orange trees from their roots and toll could be as high as 14. They He said he could not comment An exiled dissident told The Jared Ritz left a heap of concrete, mangled didn’t release any names. on casualties or say how long it Associated Press that only two Montana Kaimin iron rods and shredded furniture A single B-1B dropped four would take to determine the and clothes. “bunker-busting” bombs on the damage. Battle assessment typi- See BOMBING, Page 5 The former University of Montana Public Safety officer who had a rape charge against Chisel your way to Page 9 him dropped in February has been charged with rape and burglary stemming from an unrelated incident. An arrest warrant and crim- inal complaint for Tyrone Leo Baird were filed in Missoula County Justice Court on Thursday. Baird has been charged with sexual inter- course without consent, a felony, and burglary, also a felony. If convicted of both charges, he could face a maxi- mum sentence of life in prison and $100,000 in fines. Baird has not been arrested for the crimes and has yet to make his first appearance in court for the charges. If arrest- ed, Baird’s bail will be set for $250,000. A woman, referred through- out court documents as Jane Doe, came to police on March 29 saying she had been raped early that morning. An affidavit filed in Missoula County Justice Court says that on March 28 Doe Mike Cohea / Montana Kaimin went to a bar with Baird, his UM senior Andy Yuhas braces himself on a steep hillside along Highway 200 while fellow senior Beth Nichols scours the earth for treasures. wife and some other friends. The two were a part of a group of more than 50 people who attended the 2003 Rocky Mountain Geo-Days field trip which took the group to many geological and paleontological sites in central Montana last Saturday. Baird was leaving to take his wife home when he told Doe to call him when she arrived at her house, according to the document. A few hours Conference focuses on Central Asia later, Doe left Baird a phone message asking him to call her Kia, director of the University of Montana’s scholars attending,” Kia said. if there were any problems World-renowned Office of International Programs and the For the majority of the April 9-12 confer- with her son, who was spend- speakers to share school’s Central Asia program. ence, the approximately 120 participants and ing the night at the defen- This week UM professors, students and 20 guests—those invited by UM—will be dant’s home. According to the perspectives the public will have an opportunity to gain holed up in private panel discussions that document, Baird called Doe at insight on this region during a four-day con- will cover everything from funding opportu- 4:24 a.m. to say that her son Katie Klingsporn ference at UM called “Central Asia: Its nities for international studies to the role of was fine. Montana Kaimin GeoPolitical Significance and Future water, gender and globalization in Central Later that morning, accord- Impact.” and Southwest Asia. Central Asia is a region of the world that ing to the affidavit, she was The conference, presented by the Title VI Three of the events will be open to the has been historically ignored by American awakened by “someone per- Undergraduate International Studies and public. higher education, Mehrdad Kia said. forming oral sex on her and Foreign Language Program Directors, is an The first is a keynote speech by Elizabeth This, he said, is unfortunate. squeezing her breasts in a annual gathering of international studies Jones, former U.S. ambassador to “It’s a very important region because of its rough manner.” Doe initially educators from all over the country and Kazakhstan and current assistant secretary energy resources and ancient civilizations. thought it was her boyfriend, scholars from around the world to share of European and Eurasian affairs. Her lec- It’s the birthplace of Christianity, Judaism but once she touched the man’s their experiences, programs and cultures ture, “Oil, Democracy and Militant Islam,” and Islamic religions. It continues to play a hair and realized that it was with each other and the public. will take place on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at role of a geographical bridge which has “There is a very impressive lineup of always connected world civilizations,” said See CENTRAL ASIA, Page 12 See BAIRD, Page 12 Inside News: News: Sports: ASUM issues censure for candidates Student employee of the year brings “Yankee” Griz QB Craig Ochs shares the aches conduct during campaign. corn bread, “Butte born work ethic” to job. and ups of his transfer to UM. Page 6 Page 7 Page 10 2 Montana Kaimin, Tuesday, April 8, 2003 [email protected] OPINION Editorial Guest Column Are you smokin’ Only unity will bless America with bin Laden? continues to face. If you buy drugs, you are a terrorist. Column by No matter what Bush would have done, some group would have attacked him politi- Unless you have been living in a cave for the past year, you Alan Coulter have probably seen the aggressive advertising campaign that cally and pushed for his removal. capitalizes on a loose definition of terrorism to convince you that I might not have done what he did, but you are killing people. I’m neither in the situation nor the place to This is nothing new, as those who grew up in the 1980s can (U-WIRE) MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – pass judgment on the man. attest to. Everyone should remember the “this is your brain on The time for protests is over. I’m not for war I must believe this has to do with more drugs” campaign, and the girl diving into an empty swimming of any kind, but I do understand that some- than just oil. Saddam Hussein, who may pool. But the latest barrage of rhetoric focuses on the conse- times war is necessary when all other even be dead already, has (or had) a Hitler quences for others, rather than the user. means have been exhausted. mentality, and his regime has to be stopped. There’s nothing wrong with that. We’re not here to tell you But, did the United States exhaust every It should have been stopped years ago. that drugs don’t harm you or others indirectly. But for once can possibility before it headed into war? But all of this doesn’t matter now — they just be honest with us? I can’t fully answer that, but it seems a Operation Iraqi Freedom has taken many Who are they, you ask. Well, they’re your good friends at moot point now. lives, both American and Iraqi. Stopping the antidrug.com funded by ... well it’s not clear. Attempts by the The war happened. It’s still happening. war now is out of the question, so why not Kaimin failed to elicit a response from them as to how they are I remember seeing students protesting on have more morale for soldiers to come home funded. the corner of Greenland Drive to than, “We support you, but If people of the United States Terrorists, as most people would define them, are people like and witnessing the demonstra- we hate what you did.” can live up to our name and those in al-Qaida, Hamas, Huzbullah and the like.