The Senate plan to provide illegal immigrants with a shot at citizenship probably is a deal-breaker that will prevent passage of a compromise on immigration overhaul, the House’s lead negotiator said Sunday. “The words ‘path to citizenship’ is a buzzword for amnesty. We ought to be honest, it is amnesty,” said Rep. James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The Senate bill passed last week would tighten, offer a guest worker programs to bring in new foreign workers and provide a chance at citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants already in the country. The House bill generally is limited to border enforcement and cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants. ...
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 Fears of a U.S. Attack Against Iran Exacerbates Complex Relationship Between Pakistan and Iran |
The look and rhetoric are pure Iran. On the wall hangs a portrait of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the robed and turbaned speaker is a powerful Shiite Muslim leader. America? "The mother of all evils," says Ghorband Ali Tawassuly in an interview, sitting beneath the late Iranian revolutionary's picture. What if America attacks Iran? "God forbid," he replies. And if Iran's leader sends an order to Tawassuly and his men to rise up? "We will obey it." However, this is not Iran but Pakistan, specifically its rugged, violence-wracked province of Baluchistan, where discontent with the central government 900 miles away in Islamabad feeds a long-running guerrilla war that some fear could get a lot of worse if the United States should attack Iran's nuclear facilities. ...
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| Tight security for Colombia vote |
Colombians vote in a presidential election later on Sunday, with the massive security surrounding the poll itself an election issue. President Alvaro Uribe, running for a second term, says it will be the safest election in many years. Opinion polls suggest he will win a thumping victory, without the need for a second round of voting. Correspondents say he has had a measure of success with his policy of fighting terrorism and drug trafficking gangs. Polls suggest Mr Uribe's closest challenger is left-wing senator Carlos Gaviria, but that he trails by about 30% of the vote, compared to the president's 55%. Some 220,000 soldiers and police officers have been put on duty for the election, which begins at 0900 (1300 GMT), to safeguard the six presidential candidates and 26.7 million voters. Voting ends at 1700 local time, with the first results expected a few hours later. ...
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| Evidence looks bad for Marines, official says |
Military investigators looking into the deaths last November of about two dozen Iraqi civilians have evidence that points toward unprovoked murders by Marines, a senior defense official said yesterday.The Marine Corps initially reported 15 deaths and said they were caused by a roadside bomb and an ensuing firefight with insurgents. A separate investigation is aimed at determining whether Marines lied to cover up the events, which included the deaths of women and children.If confirmed as unjustified killings, the episode could be the most serious case of criminal misconduct by U.S. troops during three years of combat in Iraq. Until now the most infamous occurrence was the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse involving Army soldiers, which came to light in April 2004 and which President George W. Bush said Thursday he considered to be the worst U.S. mistake of the entire war....
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| Copter down in Iraq; 2 Marines missing |
A U.S. Marine AH-1 Cobra helicopter crashed in an insurgent stronghold in western Iraq on Saturday, and two crew members were missing, the U.S. military said. Hostile fire was not suspected as the cause. More than 30 people were killed in attacks nationwide Saturday, including four who died when a bomb in a parked car exploded near a busy bus station in southern Baghdad. Seven people also were wounded in the blast, which left passers-by bloodied and damaged a restaurant.The U.S. military also said a Marine was killed Friday by "enemy action" in the volatile Anbar province. The death raised to at least 2,466 the number of service members who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.The helicopter was on a maintenance test flight when it went down, and search-and-rescue efforts were under way, the statement said....
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| FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq on May 27 |
Police Colonel Qahtan al-Bawi and his bodyguard were killed when gunmen ambushed their car near the city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Two other bodyguards were seriously wounded. *BAQUBA - Gunmen killed five people -- two sets of brothers -- in Baquba, police said. First they stormed an ironsmith workshop and shot dead three brothers working there, then they attacked a nearby tyre repair shop and killed two brothers from another family. *BAGHDAD - At least four people were killed and 15 wounded when a mortar round landed in a crowded market in southern Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. Hospital sources had earlier said it was a bomb. *BAGHDAD - A U.S. Marine was killed in clashes in Iraq's restive Anbar province on Friday, the U.S. military said on Saturday. KIRKUK - An Iraqi army major was killed and three soldiers were wounded when gunmen in a car blocked their patrol and opened fire on a main road 40 km (25 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said....
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