 Tens of thousands of students walked out of school in California and other states Monday, waving flags and chanting slogans in a second week of protests against legislation to crack down on illegal immigrants. In Washington, 100 demonstrators wore handcuffs at the Capitol to protest a bill that would make it a felony to be in this country illegally and would make it a crime to dispense aid to the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. Immigrant supporters also object to legislation that would also impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and would build fences along part of the U.S.-Mexican border. More than 500,000 people gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, and tens of thousands rallied in Phoenix and Milwaukee last week...
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 Report: Britain Helped CIA Capture Two British Terror Suspects in Africa, BBC Reports |
British officials helped the CIA capture two British nationals in Africa who were later taken to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the BBC said Monday, citing secret telegrams it reportedly obtained. Iraqi-born Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna are alleged to have been associated with al-Qaida through their connection with the London-based radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada. Al-Rawi had lived in Britain since 1985, and el-Banna was granted refugee status in Britain in 2000. Al-Rawi and el-Banna were arrested several years ago in Gambia while trying to return to Britain with electronic equipment authorities described as suspicious. The men's lawyers claim it was a battery charger. ...
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| Warner spreads funds across key states |
Congressional candidates in Iowa, South Carolina and Missouri have a friend in common -- former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, the object of widespread speculation as a 2008 presidential hopeful. Mr. Warner has opened his political action committee's checkbook to candidates in those key presidential states and others. The Democrat said he wants to help centrists who will make Washington more efficient, but his efforts also are building crucial ground support where he needs it most. Mr. Warner said he supports candidates with "the same kind of common-sense, results-driven approach to politics that we brought in Virginia," where he was popular despite raising taxes by $1.38 billion in 2004 to balance the state's budget. "We can claim that sensible center [and] expand on our Democratic family by also including disaffected Republicans [and] independents who are afraid of the rightward drift of the Republican Party in this country," he said. ...
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| Moussaoui Testifies He Had No Intention of Being One of the 9/11 Hijackers |
Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui took the witness stand in his own defense for the first time Monday, testifying that he was never intended to be one of the Sept. 11, 2001 airplane hijackers. It was the first time the French citizen testified in the death penalty trial. Earlier during questioning Monday, prosecutors questioned a defense witness's assertion Monday that federal agencies missed multiple chances to catch two of the hijackers in the months and years before the attacks. The witness, former FBI agent Erik Rigler, was questioned about a Justice Department report that he said criticized the CIA for keeping intelligence about two known al-Qaida terrorist operatives in the United States from the FBI for more than a year. The two were among the 19 suicide hijackers on 9/11. The report said they had been placed on a watch list in Thailand in January 2000, but not on a U.S. list until August 2001. ...
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| Meatpacker Sues Feds Over Mad Cow Test |
A Kansas meatpacker sued the government on Thursday for refusing to let the company test for mad cow disease in every animal it slaughters. Creekstone Farms Premium Beef says it has Japanese customers who want comprehensive testing. The Agriculture Department threatened criminal prosecution if Creekstone did the tests, according to the company's lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington."We're not in any way saying that U.S. beef isn't safe; we believe it's the safest beef supply in the world, but that's not the issue," chief executive John Stewart said at a news conference."We're talking about consumers, and consumers want the product tested," Stewart said.Testing for mad cow disease in the United States is controlled by the department, which tests about 1 percent of the 35 million cattle, or about 350,000, that are slaughtered each year. The department is planning to reduce that level of testing....
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| Immigration dominates southern US politics |
Former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham was sent to prison earlier this month for taking bribes, provoking a special election in the serene-looking and sunny district he used to serve in Southern California. There are 18 candidates vying for the chance to fill his safe Republican seat in Washington. With such a crowded field, you may have thought the mainly Republican contestants would by trying to outdo each other on political integrity: promising to make up for the sleaze of the recent past. Instead, the campaign rhetoric is focused on immigration. Everybody who lives in this largely affluent area, less than an hour's drive from the Mexican border, agrees that the current system is not working. Latest estimates suggest that there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in the US....
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