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Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake U.N. Nuclear Inspector Says Documents on Purchases Were Forged By Joby WarrickWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, March 8, 2003; Page A01 A key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appears to have been fabricated, the United Nations' chief nuclear inspector said yesterday in a report that called into question U.S. and British claims about Iraq's secret nuclear ambitions. ..... Knowledgeable sources familiar with the forgery investigation described the faked evidence as a series of letters between Iraqi agents and officials in the central African nation of Niger. The documents had been...

<p>State governments spent themselves into financial crises by routinely building budgets that outstripped inflation and population growth during the 1990s, a Cato Institute report suggests.</p> <p>Had states limited new spending to a "benchmark" percentage equal to their combined inflation and population growth rates and returned any excess revenue to taxpayers, the conservative think tank said most would not be in as dire straits now.</p>

Gov. Janet Napolitano plans to sign an executive order this week moving up the date of Arizona's 2004 Democratic presidential primary. Moving the date would put Arizona among states with high-profile early presidential primaries and would bring unprecedented attention to the state, said Kris Mayes, spokeswoman for the Democratic governor. Iowa will lead off the Democratic presidential selection process in late January, followed a week later by New Hampshire. If Arizona moves up the Democratic primary date, the state would join South Carolina and Missouri on Feb. 3. Several other states also are considering holding their primaries or caucuses earlier....

Migrants seek voice in Mexico politics By Tessie BordenRepublic Mexico City BureauJan. 25, 2003 MEXICO CITY - As their numbers and influence grow, Mexican migrants in the United States are building the political muscle to demand a say in politics back home.Unlike Americans abroad, millions of Mexicans who live in the United States are not allowed to vote absentee in Mexico elections or be elected to office even though they voluntarily sent more than $10 billion home last year. Remittances are second only to oil in Mexico's sources of income. Part of the money goes to hometown governments to pay...

<p>Among those who value liberty and justice, the United Nations' choice of Libya to chair this year's session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights has been widely described as a defeat. By some lights it's a defeat for the U.S.--which protested giving this post to an emissary of terror-sponsoring tyrant Moammar Gadhafi. By U.S. standards it's a defeat for the Human Rights Commission and the entire system of international justice the U.N. pretends to promote. All of which sounds bad, but comfortably abstract; just one more round of folly at the U.N.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in Iraq, is urging Iraqi soldiers to rebel against Saddam Hussein in an effort to prevent him from persecuting the people of his nation.</p> <p>The message, aired to the Iraqi soldiers in special radio broadcasts, said the Iraqi dictator deceives his people by creating a false sense of national pride.</p>

<p>SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Tens of thousands of Christians and anti-communist activists rallied over the weekend to support the U.S. military presence in South Korea and condemn North Korea's suspected nuclear weapons program.</p> <p>The demonstration, countered by a group of some 30 protesters, was one of the first pro-U.S. gatherings in a country that has seen the presence of U.S. forces become a major issue that have hurt relations between the United States and South Korea and have played a part in efforts to convince North Korea to abide to proliferation agreements.</p>

America's enemies within turned out in force on Saturday in Washington DC and San Francisco under the auspicies of the Communist Workers World Party operating under its front organization, A.N.S.W.E.R. Once again the demonstrators pretended to be peace activists, who found violence abhorrent and a willing media played along with the charade. Neither the New York Times nor the Los Angeles Times nor any media I saw identified the organizers as Communists who have a long record of support for world terror and its leaders including the Ayatollah Khomeini, Kim John Il, Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein.As reported by the unfiltered cameras of C-Span, the pretense, in fact,...

MEXICO CITY - Dr. César Castro Marín of Phoenix has spent 13 years trying to earn the right to vote.Though he lives in the United States, having gained legal residency years ago, Marín has retained his Mexican citizenship and ties to the country of his birth. Now, he is closer than ever to his dream: being able to vote in Mexican elections. Marín and 39 of his colleagues at the U.S.-based Delegation for Political Rights of Mexicans Abroad last week lobbied Mexican Congress and Cabinet members to pass laws that will allow an estimated 7 million Mexicans abroad to vote...

President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox each heads to a summit in Monterrey, Mexico, this week with strong bargaining chips to take to the negotiating table.For Bush, it's last week's U.S. House approval of a measure to allow certain illegal immigrants to stay in the United States while applying for legal residency. For Fox, it's the March 9 capture of Benjamin Arellano Felix, a man on the FBI's Most Wanted List who is suspected of being a major drug kingpin. But how far each president will be able to push his agenda at the U.N. Financing for Development conference...

Congressional democratic leaders seem to support Bush's Mexico policy more than the republicans. File Photo, TheNewsMexico.com The top Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Friday urged President George W. Bush to increase economic aid to Mexico and hasten approval of an immigration bill to help illegal Mexican immigrants legalize their residence. Strengthening ties with Mexico is crucial to national security, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (Dem.-SD) and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (Dem.-MO) said in an open letter to Bush, urging the president to boost bilateral cooperation on issues such as immigration and border security in his upcoming visit...

<p>WASHINGTON - Roy Beck does immigration by the numbers. He produces charts to show that if newcomers keep arriving at the pace of the past decade, more than 1 million legal and illegal newcomers annually, the population of the United States will grow by 300 million by the end of the century. Almost all the increase will be because of immigrants and their offspring.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush on Saturday said his State of the Union address to be delivered to Congress next week will focus on homeland security efforts for the coming year.</p> <p>"Government's responsibilities begin with the defense of our nation. Our fight against terrorism began in Afghanistan, but it will not end there. America must not rest until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated. In this work, our military must have every resource, every weapon needed to achieve full and final victory," Bush said in his weekly radio address to the nation.</p>

JANUARY 21, 10:39 ET 12 Killed in Kashmir Village Raid By BINOO JOSHI Associated Press Writer JAMMU, India (AP) — Attackers raided a remote village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing eight children and four other civilians. State Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah blamed the attack on a police deserter who conspired with local Islamic militants to avenge a family dispute, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Abdullah said police have arrested three out of four suspects, but gave no other details, the agency reported. Police had said they suspect a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group in the deadliest attack ...

New York Times January 12, 2002 Seized Arms Would Have Vastly Extended Arafat Arsenal By JAMES BENNET JERUSALEM, Jan. 11 — More than a year ago, senior officials of Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority drew up a shopping list of advanced weapons to strengthen radically the limited Palestinian arsenal, according to American officials briefed on Israeli and American intelligence. The list closely matched the cargo of rockets, antitank grenades and powerful explosives carried by the Karine A, the rusty blue freighter that Israeli commandos stormed in the Red Sea before dawn on Jan. 3, the officials said. What happened between those ...