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UGA TODAY
► Spring Break Safety
Block Party. Sponsored by
Safe Campuses Now Get to
Spring Break safety. Blue
Card Event. 5 - 9 p.m On the
lawns of Chi Phi & Kappa
Alpha fraternities, 290 S.
Lumpkin St. Contact:
706-345-1115, kksims@safe
campusesnow.org
► Women's History Month
Film Festival. Sponsored by
the Institute for Women's
Studies and the UGA
Libraries' Media Department.
Screening of the documentary
Mohawk Girls" followed by a
discussion led by Dr. Mariana
Souto-Mannmg. 7 -
9 p.m 248 SLC. Contact:
momolly@uga.edu
► Seventh Annual
Junior/Senior Workshop:
Preparing for Graduate
School. Sponsored by the
Graduate School Outreach
and Diversity Office
RSVP by Feb. 16th at
www uga.edu/gradschool/out
reach&diversity/.
Refreshments will be served.
Noon - 2 p.m. Georgia Hall,
Tate Student Center.
Contact: 706-542-4790.
grecruit@uga.edu
Friday
► Dawgs after Dark.
Sponsored by the University
Union. Featured activities
include a game show, free
food, superhero look-alikes
and much more Free with
UGA Card, $5 for non-stu
dents. 10 p.m. - 2 a m. Tate
Student Center Contact:
706-542-6396. 11llt@uga.edu
► Friday Speaker Series.
Sponsored by the Institute for
Women's Studies Dr
Shabana Mir. independent
scholar, will speak on “You
can't really look normal and
dress modestly American
Muslim women constructing a
third space on campus."
12:20 - 1:10 p.m 148 SLC.
Contact: 706-542-2846
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Iran, Syria agree to security conference
BAGHDAD lraq's neigh
bors, including Iran and
Syria, have agreed to join U S.
and British representatives
at a regional conference here
on the Iraqi security crisis,
government officials said
Wednesday.
Deputy Foreign Minister
Labid Abawi told The
Associated Press that
Russia and France were
studying the invitation, but “I
don’t see any sign they will
refuse.”
“Syria. Iran, Saudi Arabia,
even the U Sand Britain have
informed us they will partici
pate," he said, although
Tehran has said publicly it
has made no decision. Abawi
also said China had agreed to
attend.
Abawi said the date would
be set within two days. Iraqi
state TV said the tentative
date was March 10.
Prime Minister Nouri al-
Maliki's adviser, Sami al-
Askari, also said neighboring
countries had agreed to
come. Iran has publicly said it
is studying the invitation.
"The conference will be
important. It will prove that
N. Korea restrictions working
WASHINGTON The
lead US. envoy in nuclear
talks with North Korea told
lawmakers Wednesday that
US. financial restrictions
connected with North
Korean money laundering
and counterfeiting had
forced banks around the
world to question their busi
ness dealings with Kim Jong
Il's government.
Assistant Secretary of
State Christopher Hill said
the measures, which the
United States is working to
resolve as part of a recent
disarmament agreement
with Pyongyang, had hurt
the communist government
Beckhams set for NBC reality show
LOS ANGELES When
Victoria Beckham moves to
town, the momentous event
will be recorded for televi
sion by the creator of
"American Idol.”
NBC has signed a deal for
six episodes of a half-hour
unscripted series chroni
cling the former Posh
Spice's relocation from
Europe with her soccer-star
husband, David, who has
signed to play with the
Galaxy team here. Daily
Variety said Wednesday.
The series, which may air
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Iraq is politically capable of
holding such a conference. It
will spnd a message to the
world," Abawi said.
Al-Askari said it would
allow countries such as the
U.S., Iran and Syria "to sit
down together without pay
ing a political price.”
Washington's willingness
to attend the conference
marked a diplomatic turn
about after months of refus
ing dialogue with Tehran
over calming the situation in
Iraq.
Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said
Tuesday that the United
States would join the meet
ing and that Washington sup
ported the Iraqi govern
ment's invitation to Iran and
Syria.
The Bush administration
waited to embrace the idea
until Iraq had made progress
on a law governing
national distribution of oil
revenue.
The failure of Iraq's parlia
ment to pass the oil law has
been an irritant in U.S.-Iraqi
relations.
Associated Press
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by hindering its access to
the international financial
system.
Hill spoke as the State
Department announced that
he will meet with his negoti
ating counterpart, North
Korean Vice Foreign
Minister Kim Kye Gwan, in
New York on March 5-6 to
discuss first steps toward
establishing normal ties
after decades of hostility
that followed the 1950-53
Korean War.
The bilateral meeting
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A People clear debris at the scene of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq,
Wednesday. A car bomb killed at least 10 people in a crowded commercial area of west
ern Baghdad's mixed Sunni-Shiite Baiyaa neighborhood Wednesday, police said.
emerged from a Feb. 13 six
nation agreement in which
North Korea agreed to shut
ter its main nuclear reactor
at Yongbyon within 60 days
in exchange for aid. That
accord has sparked strong
criticism in Washington,
especially among conserva
tives who see it as rewarding
the North for bad behavior.
Hill assured lawmakers at
a House Foreign Affairs
Committee hearing that the
agreement “begins to lay out
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who managed the Spice
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"For the past few years,
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as an “enemy combatant" for more than three years, is
escorted by federal marshalls in this 2006 file photo.
Judge rules Padilla
competent for trial
MIAMI A federal judge
ruled Wednesday that sus
pected al-Qaida operative
Jose Padilla is competent to
stand trial on terrorism sup
port charges, rejecting argu
ments that he was severely
damaged by 3 1/2 years of
interrogation and isolation in
a military brig.
“This defendant clearly has
the capacity to assist his
attorneys," Cooke said just
hours after she finished four
days of competency hearings.
Defense attorneys and fed
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immediately comment.
Padilla’s lawyers had asked
Cooke to order that their
client be treated for post
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interrogation while in military
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stands “legal nuances" of pre
trial motions and noted that
he had signed a document
verifying the truth of allega
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