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ACLU: German suing CIA barred from U.S.
Dec 8 2005 7:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawyers asked the Bush administration on Thursday why a German citizen, taken prisoner by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity in 2004, was not allowed into the United States last weekend.
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Study: More traffic deaths in rural areas
Dec 8 2005 5:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A country drive might be relaxing, but it can also be dangerous. Forty-two percent more fatal crashes occur in rural parts of the country than on busy stretches of highways through cities and suburbs, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday.
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Prosecutor, Time reporter meet
Dec 8 2005 2:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than an hour Thursday morning at a law firm representing Viveca Novak, a Time magazine reporter whose testimony was being sought in the CIA leak case.
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U.S. general says Bin Laden is alive
Dec 8 2005 11:51AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The top military commander in Afghanistan said Thursday that he believes Osama bin Laden is still alive, but there is no evidence of al-Qaida fighters moving from Iraq into Afghanistan to train terrorists there.
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Dean seeks to clarify comments on Iraq
Dec 8 2005 9:24AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Thursday his assertion that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq was reported "a little out of context," saying Democrats believe a new U.S. strategy is needed to succeed there.
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FEMA official warned about unprepared teams
Dec 8 2005 8:43AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal emergency response managers feared they were unprepared for catastrophic disasters a year before Hurricane Katrina hit _ yet their requests for training, equipment and an updated operations plan were ignored, officials say.
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