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Tuesday
>- Immigration and
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7 p.m. Myers Programming
Room. Speaker: Larry
Nackerud, a professor in the
School of Social Work.
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TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Shiite prime minister changes Cabinet
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The
Shiite prime minister prom
ised Sunday to reshuffle his
Cabinet after calling lawmak
ers disloyal and blaming
Sunni Muslims for the raging
sectarian violence that has
claimed at least 159 more
lives, including 35 men blown
apart while waiting to join
Iraq’s police force.
Among the unusually high
number of dead were 50 bod
ies found behind a regional
electrical company in
Baqouba, 35 miles northeast
of Baghdad, and 25 others
found scattered throughout
the capital. Three U.S. troops
were reported killed, as were
four British service members.
Also Sunday, the country’s
Sunni defense minister chal
lenged Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki’s contention that
the U.S. military should
quickly pull back into bases
and let the Iraqi army take
control of security country
wide.
Defense Minister Abdul-
Qadir al-Obaidi rejected calls
by al-Maliki for the U.S. mili
tary to speed transfer of secu
rity operations throughout
the country to the Iraqi army,
saying his men still were too
poorly equipped and trained
to do the job.
Al-Maliki wants the
Americans confined to bases
for him to call on in emergen
cies, but he boldly predicted
his army could crush violence
within six months if left alone
to do the work.
The top U.S. commander
in Iraq, Gen. George Casey
last month said it would take
12 to 18 months before Iraq’s
army was ready to take con
trol of the country with some
U.S. backup.
Key lawmakers from al-
Maliki’s Islamic Dawa Party
said that in the coming
Cabinet shake up, which the
prime minister promised dur
ing a closed-door parliament
session Sunday, Interior
Minister Jawad al-Bolani was
at the top of the list to lose his
post because police and secu
rity forces were failing to quell
the unbridled sectarian
killing that has reached civil
war proportions in Baghdad
and the center of the country.
Al-Bolani, a Shiite who was
chosen in June and a month
after al-Maliki’s government
was formed, is an independ
ent. The United States
demanded that the defense
and interior posts be held by
officials without ties to the
Shiite political parties that
control militia forces.
Al-Maliki is under pressure
both from his people and the
United States to curb vio
lence, with Washington lean
ing on him to disband Shiite
militias believed responsible,
through their death squads,
for much of the killings.
▲ An Iraqi man reacts at the scene following a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq,
— Associated Press Sunday that killed two and injured six people.
KHALID MOHAMMED | Associated Press
Arab ministers begin to work
with Palestinian government
MOHAMMED BALLAS | Associated Press
A Palestinian masked supporters of the Islamic Jihad
movement participate Sunday in a march in the West Bank
town of Jenin against Israeli operations in Gaza Strip.
CAIRO, Egypt — The Arab
League called Sunday for an
international peace confer
ence with Israel, and diplo
mats said the Hamas-led
Palestinian government
accepted.
Foreign Minister
Mahmoud al-Zahar, of the rul
ing Hamas group, endorsed a
statement by Arab foreign
ministers calling for a peace
conference during a meeting
in Cairo, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity because
they were not authorized to
speak to the media.
The endorsement was the
first time Hamas, which has
refused to recognized Israel
and renounce violence
against the Jewish state, has
indicated it would consider
making amends with Israel.
Mark Regev, a spokesman
for Israel’s foreign ministry,
said he was not aware of the
conference proposal, but said
Hamas could not be a party
to talks with Israel unless it
met the international com
munity’s stipulations that it
recognize Israel, renounce
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violence and abide by existing
Israeli-Palestinian agree
ments.
Sunday was the first time
Zahar had attended an Arab
foreign ministers’ meeting
since Hamas became the rul
ing Palestinian party earlier
this year. The Arab League
had previously refused to let
him join his counterparts
unless Hamas accepted the
peace initiative.
Arab ministers also decid
ed on Sunday to end a finan
cial blockade on the
Palestinians in response to a
U.S. veto to a U.N. Security
Council draft resolution con
demning Israel’s deadly mili
tary offensive in the Gaza
Strip.
On Saturday, the U.S.
vetoed the Security Council
draft resolution that con
demned the recent Israeli mil
itary offensive that has killed
more than 50 people and
demanded that Israeli troops
pull out of the territory. The
veto drew criticism from Arab
countries, and top Arab diplo
mats from 11 countries gath
ered in Cairo to hammer out a
response.
Arab League Secretary-
General Amr Moussa said the
decision to break the
Western-lead financial block
ade was a message to the
United States.
Insurgent activity
rising in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan —
Insurgent activity in
Afghanistan has risen four
fold this year, and militants
now launch more than 600
attacks a month, a rising
wave of violence that has
resulted in 3,700 deaths in
2006, a bleak new report
released Sunday found.
In the volatile border area
near Pakistan, more than 20
Taliban militants — and pos
sibly as many as 60 — were
killed during several days of
clashes, officials said Sunday.
Afghanistan saw about 130
insurgent attacks a month
last year, said the report by
the Joint Coordination and
Monitoring Board, a body of
Afghan and international offi
cials charged with overseeing
the implementation of the
Afghanistan Compact, a five-
year reconstruction and
development blueprint
signed in February.
The violence “threatens to
reverse some of the gains
made in the recent past, with
development activities being
especially hard hit in several
areas, resulting in partial or
total withdrawal of interna
tional agencies in a number of
the worst-affected
provinces.”
The report said that the
rising drug trade in
Afghanistan is fueling the
insurgency in four volatile
southern provinces. The slow
pace of development is con
tributing to popular disaffec
tion and ineffective imple
mentation of the drug fight, it
said.
Afghanistan’s poppy crop,
which is used to make heroin,
increased by 59 percent this
past year.
— Associated Press
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Bush to look into changes in Iraq
WASHINGTON — President
Bush’s chief of staff said
Sunday “nobody can be happy
with the situation” now in Iraq
and the White House would
consider the idea of U.S. talks
with Syria and Iran if a com
mission recommended that.
President Bush and his
national security team
planned to meet Monday with
the bipartisan Iraq Study
Group, which is trying to
develop a new course for the
war.
“We’re looking forward to
the recommendations,” said
Josh Bolten, Bush’s top aide.
With Democrats seizing
majorities in the House and
Senate in last week’s elec
tions, Bolten said the White
House is “looking forward to a
dialogue with bipartisan lead
ers in Congress.”
The administration, Bolten
said, “has always been ready
to make a course adjustment.”
NATIONAL
“Nobody can be happy with
the situation in Iraq right now.
Everybody’s been working
hard, but what we’ve been
doing has not worked well
enough or fast enough,”
Bolten said. “So it’s clearly
time to put fresh eyes on the
problem. The president has
always been interested in tac
tical adjustments. But the
ultimate goal remains the
same, which is success in
Iraq.”
McCain takes steps
for White House bid
ALEX WONG | Associated Press
▲ Sen. John McCain, R-
Ariz., speaks on “Meet the
Press.” He said he is taking
initial steps for a White
House bid in 2008.
Open Late
WASHINGTON
Republican Sen. John McCain
said Sunday he is taking the
initial steps for a White House
bid in 2008, setting up a com
mittee that allows a potential
candidate to raise money and
travel the country to gauge
support.
Democratic Sen. Joe Biden
reaffirmed his intention to
seek his party’s nomination,
though his announcement
about establishing an
exploratory committee proba
bly will not come until early
next year.
The anticipated wide-open
campaign — for the first time
since the 1928 race, the field
will not include a sitting presi
dent or vice president — lost
one possible participant when
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis.,
decided against a long-shot
run.
— Associated Press
Andy Griffith star
sues local candidate
MILWAUKEE — Forget
the small-town belief in
letting bygones be
bygones.
The star of “The Andy
Griffith Show,” who por
trayed the sheriff of the
fictional town of
Mayberry, has sued a
Wisconsin man who
unsuccessfully ran for the
Grant County post after
legally changing his name
to Andrew Jackson
Griffith.
The lawsuit, filed Nov. 3
in U.S. District Court in
Madison, alleges that
William Harold Fenrick,
42, violated trademark
and copyright laws, as
well as the privacy of
actor Andy Samuel
Griffith, when he used his
new name to promote his
candidacy for sheriff in
southwestern Wisconsin.
The former Fenrick
changed his name for the
“sole purpose of taking
advantage of Griffith’s
notoriety in an attempt to
NAMES & FACES
gain votes,” the lawsuit
says.
The lawsuit asks the
court to order him to go
back to his original name
and for him to publish dis
claimers and an apology
in newspapers that say he
has no association with
the actor. It seeks unspec
ified damages and court
fees.
The candidate argues
he did not benefit from
the name change.
The music store co
owner said he spent $5,000
on his failed campaign
and changed his name to
garner publicity for the
race. He finished behind
two others.
Tobey Maquire
has a baby girl
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LOS ANGELES —
“Spider-Man” star Tobey
Maguire and his fiancee,
Jennifer Meyer, are par
ents of a baby girl, accord
ing to magazine reports.
Meyer, a 29-year-old
jewelry designer, gave
birth Thursday in Los
Angeles, Us Weekly and
People magazines report
ed on their Web sites.
Maguire, 31, and Meyer
have been together since
2003. They announced
their engagement this
year.
— Associated Press