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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 2002
Page
6
A car bomb killed Simon Veness, a British banker, in Riyadh outside a guarded residential compound. The Saudi police chief cited by the official Saudi Press Agency said a four wheel drive exploded, and the Foreign Office confirmed the victim’s identity.
In Ramallah Yasser Arafat urged Palestinian militias to stop attacks on Israeli civilians after two bombing incidents that killed 26 Israelis. Israel sent troops into five West Bank towns as divisions rose over Ariel Sharon’s plan to seize Palestinian areas while violence continues.
Madrid clashes erupted as workers nationwide halted activity in Spain's first general strike in eight years. Police arrested 31 demonstrators, with two charged for tampering with door locks. Unions protest unemployment benefit cuts as Prime Minister Aznar hosts EU summit in Seville.
Federal grand jury charges Terry Barton a U.S. Forest Service worker with willfully setting timber and fuel in a national forest, injuring firefighter Ryan Beyer and damaging federal property. Indictment says fire was staged to resemble an escaped campfire. Barton faces up to 65 years and $1 million fine if convicted. Fire has burned 135000 acres, destroyed 25 homes, forced 7500 evacuations.
Washington officials say weeks before the 1995 Murrah Building attack U S intelligence and law enforcement received warnings that Islamic terrorists aimed to strike on American soil with government buildings as the likely target. The alerts prompted higher federal security screening but no cement barriers were installed prior to the bombing.
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