 Top Department of Homeland Security officials were told that New Orleans' levees were breached the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, former disaster chief Michael Brown said Friday, contradicting previous statements by agency officials who said they did not know the levees were toppling until the next day. "I find it a little disingenuous," Brown, who at the time headed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told a Senate oversight committee. "For them to claim that we didn't have awareness of it is just baloney." Brown also told senators that decisions and policies by the parent Homeland Security Department doomed FEMA to "a path to failure" that led to the government's slow response to the storm. He said that because of a focus on terrorism, natural disasters "had become the stepchild of the Department of Homeland Security." ...
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 Eight killed by Baghdad car bomb |
At least eight people were killed and 22 wounded by a car bomb in the southern Doura district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police said. The bomb exploded about 10m from a Sunni mosque at 1300 (1000 GMT). Most of the victims were worshippers attending Friday prayers. An imam from a Sunni mosque in the west of Baghdad was also abducted by gunmen. A roadside bomb also killed two US Marines near the city of Falluja, the US military has said. The Marines died on Thursday when their patrol was targeted near the city, 65 kilometres (40 miles) west of Baghdad. Nine US troops have died in Anbar Province in the past week. The deaths take the number of US soldiers killed to more than 2,260 since the Iraq war began in March 2003. ...
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| Bush wins deal on anti-terror law. Fear of the Boogieman wins over freedom again |
Key US senators have agreed to back a controversial anti-terror law which the Bush administration has spent months struggling to have renewed. The Patriot Act gave the government new powers to investigate terror suspects after the 11 September 2001 attacks. Civil libertarians in both parties have objected to some measures, which were due to expire at the end of 2005 and had been only temporarily extended. The White House has now agreed to changes making renewal almost certain. President Bush on Thursday outlined details of what he called a terrorist plot to attack Los Angeles, which he said had been derailed by international law enforcement in 2002. They call it the” Patriotic Act” and the foolish fall for the name trick, that’s how the traitors in Government who push this Treasonous Bill win. For Gods sake people start to think where this crap is leading this country and get rid of these Traitors. Put your Country before blind party loyalty......
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| Ex-Aristide ally leads Haiti poll |
Former president Rene Preval, a one-time ally of ousted leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has taken a strong early lead in Haiti's election. Initial results from around the Haitian capital show he has more than 60% of the votes, electoral officials say. Another ex-leader, Leslie Manigat, has 13.8%, while industrialist Charles Henry Baker has 6.1%, results show. The first election since Mr Aristide fled the country two years ago has been hailed by international observers. They praised the absence of political violence during Tuesday's election, which had been postponed several times. Haitians were also commended for turning out in large numbers, and showing patience with long queues outside polling stations. ...
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| Nigeria confirms bird flu spread |
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found on three more farms in northern Nigeria, where thousands of poultry have died recently. Officials said tests had confirmed bird flu on farms in two different states to where Africa's first case of bird flu was confirmed on Wednesday. Chickens have been dying in Nigeria for a month, leading to fears that the virus may have spread widely. The government says it has now imposed a quarantine on the affected farms. Large-scale culls of poultry have also begun. The World Health Organization has called for a massive public education campaign, to stop bird flu from spreading to humans in Nigeria. "The single most important public health priority at this stage is to warn people about the dangers of close contact with sick or dead birds infected with H5N1," a WHO statement said....
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| Fighting near Chechnya kills 19 |
Twelve militants and seven Russian policemen have died in a clash in the southern Stavropol region, Russian security officials say. The fighting erupted on Thursday in Tukui-Mekteb, a village just north of Chechnya in the North Caucasus. According to Russian media reports, the militants had seized two houses. Hostilities flared up again in Chechnya in 1999 and Russia has refused to negotiate with the separatist rebels who want independence. On Friday up to 300 police officers and elite troops surrounded and then stormed a house in the village where the rebels were holed up, Russian security officials said. Earlier, several policemen had died in a clash with the rebels. Villagers were evacuated when the fighting erupted on Thursday. ...
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