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...Hide The Numbers?", your story on the political reaction to the roundup of immigrants suspected of being connected to the Sept. 11 attacks, truly amazes me. Why are the very politicians who claim to be as concerned about safety and justice as the average citizen so quick to question the way in which our government is going about it? It seems that Senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy have completely forgotten that the immigrants being held are under suspicion because they have broken laws. Sept. 11 was a devastating blow. And while we are forced to acclimate...
...hell. But what was perhaps not as predictable is that protest would come from a conservative stalwart like Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. Earlier this month he joined Senate Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont in writing a letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft to express concern over the covert roundup of mostly immigrants suspected of being connected to the terrorist attacks. Since then, Leahy has repeatedly asked the Attorney General to release the number and names of detainees...
...Spanish roundup on Wednesday nabbed six Algerians suspected of running a logistical support cell for the so-called Beghal network - named after Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian Muslim, bin Laden associate and network coordinator. That sweep came a day after British police apprehended three men, including Kamel Daoudi, 23, a Frenchman who escaped the Sept. 21 capture of seven co-members of the Beghal group in suburban Paris. The joint European crackdown began on Sept. 13, when Belgian and Dutch authorities apprehended six extremists said to be part of a plan to attack U.S. targets in France - including the American...
...There were no outright surprises Monday, but it was interesting that Sandra Day O?Connor and Anthony Kennedy, who have emerged as the court?s key swing votes, took turns siding with the liberal wing of the Court. The presence of one swing vote, however, was generally decisive. A roundup of the decisions...
...April, 600 schools in Scotland were sent 84,000 copies of a magazine called Your World: Biotechnology & You. Produced by the Biotechnology Institute, an industry-funded organization based in Washington, the magazine features stories on transgenic animals and other biotech wonders. A recent issue highlights Monsanto's herbicide Roundup; another features a girl who took Prozac and "felt like herself again." Since 1999, 4,500 U.S. schools have received the magazine, to little protest. But in Scotland, industry critics are predictably furious. "Biotech companies aren't interested in education," says Matthew Herbert of the protest group Scottish Genetix Action. "They...