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4A Daily News – Tuesday, September 6, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Pakistan's intel agency detains 3 ISLAMABAD (AP) — A battered al-Qaida suf- fered another significant blow when Pakistani agents working with the CIA arrested a senior leader believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic inter- ests around the globe, Pak- istan announced Monday. Younis al-Mauritani's arrest — made public six days before the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — also point to improved cooperation between two uneasy anti- terror allies after the rancor surrounding bin Laden's killing. Al-Qaida has seen its senior ranks thinned since bin Laden was killed May 2 in a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan without the knowledge of local authorities. Atiyah Abd al- Rahman, the terror net- work's No. 2, was killed in a CIA missile strike last month. Pakistan's unusual pub- lic announcement of close cooperation with the U.S. spy agency appeared aimed at reversing the widespread perception that ties between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency had been badly damaged by bin Laden's death. The Pakistanis accused the Americans of violating their sovereignty with the raid, while Washington was angry the terror leader had been found in a house in a military garrison town. The Pakistani military said the arrest of al-Mauri- tani and two other Qaida operatives took place near the Afghan border in the southwestern city of Quet- ta, long known as a base for militants. It did not say when. The arrests were carried out in the past two weeks, according to a U.S. official speaking on condi- tion of anonymity to dis- cuss intelligence matters. Remnants of Lee spin off tornadoes JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A plodding sys- tem dumping a torrent of rain across the South turned deadly in Missis- sippi when a man was swept away by floodwa- ters after trying to cross a swollen creek, author- ities said Monday. The death was the first reported so far that was directly attributed to the remnants of Trop- ical Storm Lee. Fore- casters said the storm wasn't finished yet as it slowly moved east, threatening to spin off more tornadoes and cause flash floods and mudslides along the way. At least 16,000 people were without power in Louisiana and Mississippi as of Mon- day afternoon. The man who died in Mississippi, 57-year-old John Howard Anderson Jr., had been in a car with two other people trying to cross a rain- swollen creek that natu- rally flows over the entrance to JP Coleman State Park. Anderson had been staying on a house boat at the park's marina. Tishomingo County Coroner Mack Wilemon said he was told Anderson was out- side of the car and had been thrown a rope to be rescued, but he couldn't hold on. Jonathan Weeks, a 48-year-old salesman from Plantersville who owns a vacation home near the park, said he helped pull two people to shore and tried to save Anderson. Weeks said a strong storm had come through the area and he and his wife went out looking around when they saw a van crossing the creek. He happened to have a rope in the tool box of his truck. Wall Street braces for a rocky day LONDON (AP) — World stock markets took a beating Monday over fears that the U.S. economy was heading back into a recession just as the European debt crisis was heating up and the eurozone's economic indicators were slumping. Any troubles in the world's largest economy cast a long shadow over the markets, and a report Friday that the U.S. economy failed to add any new jobs in August caused Euro- pean and Asian stock markets to sink sharply Monday. But the news from Europe was also dis- couraging. Wall Street, which was closed Mon- day due to the Labor Day holiday, braced for losses Tuesday after the yields in so-called peripheral eurozone countries — Greece, Italy and Spain — rose sharply against those of Germany, whose bonds are widely considered a safe haven. Although retail sales in the 17-nation euro- zone rose unexpectedly in July, a survey of the services sector Monday showed a slowdown across the continent for the fifth consecutive month. The purchasing managers' index for the eurozone showed the services sector was still growing — unlike the manufacturing sector — but only barely. That will add pressure on the European Central Bank to keep interest rates on hold when it meets this week. ''There's so much uncertainty, so much fear, that investors don't know what to do,'' said David Kotok, chairman and chief investment officer at Cumberland Advisors. ''I don't remember the last time stocks were so cheap and nobody wanted them.'' Libyan fighters converge on Gadhafi TARHOUNA, Libya (AP) — Thousands of rebel fighters closed in around one of Libya's last pro-Gadhafi strong- holds Monday, but held back on a final assault in hopes of avoiding a bloody battle for the town of Bani Walid. The standoff came as rebel leaders in Tripoli said Libya's transition to democratic rule would begin with a ''declaration of libera- Atlantic Ocean. On Monday after- noon, Katia's maximum sustained winds had increased to 116 mph (185 kph). That makes Katia a major hurricane, and some additional strengthening is expect- ed later in the day. Hurricane specialist tion'' that was unlikely to come before Gad- hafi's forces last strong- holds were defeated and the fugitive former dic- tator had been captured. The declaration would mark the start of an eight-month deadline for Libya's transitional council to arrange the vote for a national assembly, and eventual- ly to a constitution and general elections. ''When the clock starts ticking on those eight months remains to be seen,'' rebel spokesman Jalal el-Gal- lal said, adding it wasn't yet clear how liberation would be defined. Special U.N. envoy Ian Martin, meanwhile, said the United Nations was helping the rebel leadership prepare for its elections, stressing the country faces immense political hur- dles after nearly 42 years of dictatorial rule. Libyan intelligence files show Gadhafi's failure TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — As the uprising grew against Moammar Gadhafi, secret reports from his vaunted intelli- gence service flowed back to Tripoli. Some were mundane — how agents erased anti- regime graffiti. Others were more deadly — a spy volunteered to poi- son rebel leaders' food and drink. The reports grew more desperate as the Libyan rebellion veered into civil war: Military leaders in the western mountains were disre- 2 eggs, hash browns or home fries & biscuit with gravy $599 Served 6:30am-2pm 7 days a week No substitutions ORDERS TO GO 7875 HWY 99E LOS MOLINOS, CA 384-1265 garding orders; troops in the city of Misrata ran out of ammunition, turning the situation into ''every man for himself.'' These reports and hundreds of other intel- ligence documents seen by The Associated Press in Tripoli trace how the tide shifted in the six- month uprising that ended Gadhafi's 42-year reign. They show how an authoritarian regime using all its means failed to quash an armed rebellion largely fueled by hatred of its tools of control. The Arab-language documents read and photographed by an AP reporter during a visit to Tripoli's intelligence headquarters contain a mixture of military data and regime propaganda. Amid reports on rebels' movements, phone tap records and dispatches from Gadhafi's domes- tic agents are memos claiming that al-Qaida was behind the rebellion and that 4,000 U.S. troops were about to invade from Egypt. The uprising began in mid-February when security forces used deadly fire to suppress anti-go v ernment protests in the eastern city of Benghazi. The opposition responded to the fierce crackdown by taking up arms, quickly seizing a large swath of eastern Libya and estab- lishing a temporary administration. 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The fire had black- ened more than 17,500 acres since it started on Sunday and was the largest of the dozens burning in the drought- stricken state. It was headed away from the state capital, some 30 miles to the northwest, and consuming the water-starved woods and brush with such ferocity that it was deemed unsafe to fight from the ground, Texas Forest Service spokes- woman Jan Amen said. ''It's a monster and it's zero percent con- tained,'' Amen said. Instead, the state deployed its firefighting air fleet, including National Guard heli- copters and four heavy tanker planes. It also summoned a tanker from South Dakota. Emergency shelters were set up for those forced to evacuate their homes. About 30 people spent the night at a Bas- trop church, waiting to learn if they had lost everything. 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