 A House committee Wednesday subpoenaed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to find out what she knew about the 2003 claim that Iraq sought uranium from the African country of Niger.The uranium claim, which President Bush made in his 2003 State of the Union address, was a key element in the administration's case for the invasion of Iraq.Rice was President Bush's national security adviser at the time.The Oversight and Government Reform Committee vote was 21-10. In July 2003 -- two months into the Iraq war -- the White House backed away from the uranium assertion after a former diplomat, Joseph Wilson, announced the CIA had sent him to Niger in 2002 to check out the report. Wilson said he found it unlikely to be true, and alleged the Bush administration had "twisted" the evidence for war.Deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey said Wednesday that the department "will be consulting with the White House on this matter."...
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 Mexico City faces court challenge after legalising abortions |
Mexico City is facing a run-in with the Catholic church and a likely court battle following a vote yesterday to legalise abortion. The city's governing Democratic Revolution party welcomed the 46-19 vote, which requires city hospitals to provide the procedure in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and opens the way for private abortion clinics. A crowd of party supporters and abortion-rights activists gathered at a monument to 19th-century anti-clerical reformer Benito Juarez, chanting, "Yes, we did it!". "I feel happy, because this is a step forward, not backward, for a woman's right and freedom to choose ... about her body and her life," said demonstrator Gabriela Cruz....
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| Suicide-belted attacker hits Iraqi police station 4 policemen killed; meantime, U.N. says Baghdad violence remains high |
A suicide bomber wearing a hidden belt of explosives attacked a police station in Iraq’s volatile province of Diyala on Wednesday, killing at least four policemen just days after a double suicide bombing in the same province left nine U.S. soldiers dead. Wednesday’s explosion, which also injured at least 16 people, occurred at the front gate of the police station in a marketplace in Balad Ruz city, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, police said. All fatalities were policemen and the wounded included 11 civilians and five policemen, authorities said. Since U.S. and Iraqi troops launched the security crackdown in Baghdad in February, Sunni militants are believed to have moved out of the Iraqi capital to seek haven in nearby areas such as Diyala. Despite that, a U.N. report released Wednesday said that violence in Baghdad remains at high levels. ...
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| US to make history trying alleged child war criminal. |
A human rights group today attacked a US decision to file murder charges against a Canadian national and alleged Taliban fighter who was captured in Afghanistan when he was 15. Omar Khadr was wounded by US soldiers during a battle near Khost, Afghanistan, and taken into US custody in July 2002. He has spent most of the past five years in the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay. During his capture he was shot three times and is nearly blind in one eye as a result of his injuries. The US military says Mr Khadr threw a grenade that killed a US Green Beret sergeant, Christopher Speer, and wounded another sergeant, Layne Morris. Meanwhile the real War Criminals who lied to start this War OF Terror killing more innocent people than all the terrorists combined have killed in the last 50 years, are still uncharged and free to continue the killings. However, we talk about Justice and the rule of law, we just don’t practice it ...
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| Giuliani Faces Skeptical GOP Voters |
Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani defended his positions on a late-term abortion procedure and gun control Tuesday as he faced skeptical GOP voters who questioned his sincerity. ``I don't think there's an inconsistency,'' the former New York City mayor said of his long-standing support of abortion rights and his affirmation last week of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortion, a measure he opposed in the past. Once an advocate of strong federal gun controls, Giuliani also disputed the characterization that he advised President Clinton on the matter, talked of leaving the issue up to states, and said: ``I agree with the Second Amendment. I always have. I think people have an individual right to bear arms.'' On both hot-button issues, Giuliani is advocating more conservative positions than the moderate stances he embraced as mayor. He will say anything you want to hear, just don’t expect any Honesty...
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| Nato dumps Afghan opium adverts |
Nato forces in Afghanistan say that they have withdrawn paid adverts on a radio station which implied it was acceptable to grow opium poppies. A Nato spokesman told the BBC that the advert was "ambiguously worded". The decision followed complaints from the Afghan government and the UN that the alliance was appearing to condone the illicit crop. The advert was paid for by the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) and aired in Helmand province. The province in the south is one of the largest opium-producing area in the world and the centre of a large Nato-led anti-Taleban offensive. "This was an error by Isaf," Zalmay Afzali, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Ministry for Counter Narcotics told the AP news agency. "We request from Isaf to avoid these kind of errors in the future because it can create a hell of a problem for the counter-narcotics strategy of Afghanistan," he said....
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