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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 2004
Page
6
Ten year old Georgy Farniyev describes the Beslan school siege at School No 1 where gunmen held 1,200 people for two days. He and relatives survived despite shrapnel wounds after bombs in the gym and a harrowing escape.
Secretary of State Colin Powell declared genocide has been committed in Darfur. He said the Sudanese government and Janjaweed bear responsibility for rapes killings and other abuses that left 1.2 million displaced. The statement aims to pressure Khartoum while complicating UN sanctions diplomacy.
U.S. and Mexican officials announced a joint effort to remove millions of discarded tires and other junk from the Ciudad Juarez border area. The plan starts by burning 800,000 tires annually for cement-factory fuel, with Cementos de Chihuahua investing in equipment at Samalayuca.
Pakistani jets pounded a suspected foreign militant training facility in South Waziristan for about two hours near Dila Khula, killing 50 people and destroying the camp. Officials said most victims were foreigners including Uzbeks, Chechens and Arabs, who were accused of saboteur acts inside Pakistan.
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