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Assassin singled out American missionaries
By Ahmed al-Haj in Jibla, Yemen
January 1 2003
The man suspected of killing three American missionaries and wounding
another in southern Yemen is believed to have ties to a cell plotting
attacks on foreigners and secular-minded politicians, officials said.
The United States immediately vowed to hunt down "any and all" of those
responsible for the murders. It asked Yemeni authorities to provide more
protection for Americans after the gunning down of a doctor and two medical
workers on Monday at Jibla Baptist hospital, south of the capital, Sana'a.
The Islamic extremist walked into the hospital cradling a bandaged rifle as
if it were a sick baby. The gunman passed security guards unnoticed and
burst in on a morning meeting. He shot the director, William Koehn, 60, and
two female colleagues in the head before moving on to the dispensary, where
he severely wounded the pharmacist.
Security guards captured the man, identified as Abed Abdul-Razzak Kamel,
30. He told police he carried out the attack "to be closer to God".
Two Australian doctors, one of whom was South Australian Ken Clezy, escaped
unhurt in the attack. The Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, said one of
the doctors believed the gunman targeted the three Americans. "It was
obviously a very frightening experience," Mr Downer said. "The two
Australian doctors are going to return to Australia very soon, and I can
understand that."
Yemeni authorities said Kamel claimed membership of a militant cell
targeting foreigners and secular-minded Yemeni politicians and public figures.
The official news agency Saba said the suspect told interrogators that he
plotted the attack in collaboration with Ali al-Jarallah -
a Muslim extremist and a member of the fundamentalist Islamic Reform Party
who was arrested for shooting dead a left-wing politician on Saturday.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh condemned the shootings as "disgraceful" and
pledged to punish the perpetrators. "We are confident that such a criminal
act won't affect the friendship and co-operation between our countries, but
instead strengthen our determination to eradicate terrorism," he said.
The Bush Administration said investigators were trying to determine whether
the attack was linked to terrorism. "We strongly condemn and deplore the
murder of three American citizens who were providing humanitarian
assistance to the Yemeni people," said a White House spokesman, Scott
McClellan. "Our intention is to bring to justice any and all people who
were responsible for these murders."
US officials said it was too early to jump to conclusions about whether the
man acted alone or had any link with groups such as al-Qaeda. Mr McClellan
declined to label the murders a terrorist attack, but said the US was
working closely with Yemeni officials on the case.
On November 21 a gunman killed an American missionary nurse in the Lebanese
city of Sidon. No one was arrested.
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Britain's Channel 4, which recently broadcast the country's first public
autopsy for 170 years, is to show a Chinese artist eating the flesh of a
dead baby, a British newspaper reported.
The bizarre act will be shown in a documentary called Beijing Swings, which
looks at extreme practices of Chinese artists, according to The Guardian.
The program, to be shown on British screens late night next week, also
shows a man drinking wine that has had an amputated penis marinaded in it.
"The program will be controversial and will shock some viewers but a
warning will be given before it goes out on air," the paper quoted a
Channel 4 spokesman as saying.
Viewers will see stills of artist Zhu Yu biting into a stillborn child.
He says on the program: "No religion forbids cannibalism. Nor can I find
any law which prevents us from eating people.
"I took advantage of the space between morality and the law and based my
work on it." Zhu, who is a Christian, adds that religion has had a major
impact on his work.
On November 20, Channel 4, which is a free-to-air terrestrial channel,
filmed maverick German doctor, Professor Gunther von Hagens, carrying out
Britain's first public autopsy in nearly two centuries, despite a public
outcry and threats of police action.
The autopsy was performed on the corpse of a 72-year-old German man who had
drunk up to two bottles of whisky a day and was a heavy smoker for the last
50 years of his life.
Politicians and media critics have condemned the planned broadcast.
Zhu describes his work as expressing his Christian faith, saying: Jesus is
always related to death, blood, wounds.
The show's presenter, a newspaper art critic, calls the work suffering for
art on a messianic scale and says Zhu actually ate the baby's flesh.
A spokesman for Channel 4 says the images appear in the context of an
intelligent and thought-provoking film about extreme art in China.
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