Nearly six in 10 people in Britain believe it was a mistake to invade Iraq, according to a BBC poll published Tuesday. Fifty-five percent of respondents said they felt the war in Iraq has made Britain less safe, and only 5 percent said it left them feeling safer, according to the British Broadcasting Corp. poll commissioned to mark the invasion's fourth anniversary. "Four years on from the war, most people in the country have now come to the view that the United States and Britain were wrong to take military action against Iraq in 2003," said Nick Sparrow from ICM Research, which conducted the poll. More than half of respondents, 51 percent, said they would not trust the British government if it said military action was needed elsewhere because a country posed a threat to national security. Thirty-two percent said they would trust the government. ...
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 Senate votes to cut Gonzales’ power to appoint |
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to end the Bush administration’s ability to unilaterally fill U.S. attorney vacancies as a backlash to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ firing of eight federal prosecutors. Amid calls from lawmakers in both parties to resign, Gonzales got a morale boost with an early-morning call from President Bush, their first conversation since a week ago, when the president said he was unhappy with how the Justice Department handled the firings. With a 94-2 vote, the Senate passed a bill that canceled a Justice Department-authored provision in the Patriot Act that had allowed the attorney general to appoint U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation. Democrats say the Bush administration abused that authority when it fired the eight prosecutors and proposed replacing some with White House loyalists. “If you politicize the prosecutors, you politicize everybody in the whole chain of law enforcement,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt....
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| Miss. Senate Defeats Resolution to File New Bill to Cut Grocery Tax, Boost Cigarette Tax |
The Mississippi Senate on Tuesday defeated an attempt to cut the state's 7 percent grocery tax in half and boost the cigarette tax. Gov. Haley Barbour opposes the plan. He says the time is not right to reduce the grocery tax because Mississippi still faces too much economic uncertainty in its recovery from Hurricane Katrina. On the cigarette portion, he says he opposes raising anybody's taxes. At issue Tuesday was a resolution that would have allowed the filing of a bill to cut the grocery tax and raise the cigarette tax to $1 a pack from 18 cents, the third-lowest in the nation. The Senate voted 31 to 20, three votes short of the 34 needed. Mississippi residents pay the nation's highest taxes on groceries, yet rank among the lowest paid households in the nation. A so-called "tax swap" bill died last week after a legislative deadline passed and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Tommy Robertson...
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| RENDITIONS VICTIM SPEAKS OUT CIA Kidnapping Leaves Ex-Terror Suspect a Broken Man |
Radical imam Abu Omar was kidnapped by the CIA in Milan 4 years ago & taken to a prison in Egypt. There, he was tormented with electric shocks & suspended from the ceiling for days on end. Now Omar describes his ordeal & the role Germany played in the scandal. Osama Hussein Nasr comes downstairs to show the way to his house in Alexandria, which is difficult to find amidst the chaos of narrow alleys with their open sewers. Suddenly he's standing there, in front of a small café a diminutive man with a long, scruffy beard & a round white cap on his head. After a brief handshake, the man better known as Abu Omar urges us to follow him back upstairs. It's better to talk there, he says: "They're everywhere down here on the street, the security people." Abu Omar isn't allowed to receive visits from Western journalists. He says his "friends" the Egyptian authorities have "strongly advised" him to observe this prohibition. Abu Omar is nervous. The 46-year-old was released from jail on Feb. 11 ...
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| 29 Die When Bus Loses Brakes, Catches Fire in Thailand |
A long-distance passenger bus caught fire and careened out of control down a mountain road in central Thailand on Tuesday after its brakes failed, killing 29 people and injuring more than 10 others, police said.The bus, which was traveling from northeastern Thailand to Bangkok, had earlier made a stop to fix its brakes, according to an initial police investigation."The front wheels of the bus burst into flames and the driver lost control of the brakes, and then the engine caught fire," police Lt. Samran Soreekun said. He said the fire spread through the bus as it plowed down the road out of control in the central province of Saraburi....
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| Rallies Across United States Mark 4th Anniversary of Iraq War |
Anti-war activists draped themselves in white sheets and laid down in the street to symbolize Iraq's dead, halting traffic in the heart of the city and leading to 57 arrests on the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion, police said.The "die-in" was one of several protests around the country Monday, including anti-war rallies in Seattle; Salt Lake City and Trenton, N.J.Other protests took a more artistic bent: 4,000 white flags were placed along the waterfront in Louisville, Ky., and an exhibit of shiny black boots was arranged in the Capitol in St. Paul, Minn.In San Francisco, students, grandparents and clergy members were among those who gathered to read the names of Iraqis and U.S. troops killed in the war and call for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq."This is what they do in Iraq — just lay the bodies on the side of the street," said Joey Vaughan, 20, of San Francisco, as he lay on the sidewalk. "I just think it's time people pay attention."...
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