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'Saddam's deputy' in anti-US call The US blames Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri for attacks on its troops A message purported to be from the fugitive deputy of executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has called on insurgents to make a final push against US forces. The message attributed to Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri urged Iraqi fighters to "make this year... decisive for victory". The message also called on US President George W Bush to "come clean about the scale of US losses". Ibrahim is the most senior member of Saddam Hussein's regime still at large. The message, aired by Dubai-based satellite broadcaster...

Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced despite a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. By Nicola Nasser Addouri Outlines Anti-U.S. Strategy For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003, the deputy of Saddam Hussein, the late President of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced, despite a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, in a lengthy interview with Abdel-Azim Manaf, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Mawqif Al-Arabi, not a mainstream, on May 26 to lay out the strategy and tactics of the Iraqi resistance led by the former ruling party, Al-Baath. Addouri's resurface and...

SAN FRANCISCO – One year after failing to win control of the Sierra Club in a bitterly contested election, advocates for stricter immigration limits are back, arguing that the venerable conservation group can best protect the environment by reducing U.S. population growth. The club's 750,000 members are voting this month on whether the organization should push for tighter restrictions on immigration. Five seats are open on the 15-member board of directors, which sets club policy and commands the $100 million annual budget. Sierrans for U.S. Population Stabilization, club activists seeking to limit immigration, are backing five candidates and pushing a...

<p>Some wounds never heal, especially if they involve money. Just ask Dan Lungren.</p> <p>The California Republican Assembly, the conservative-leaning, 15,000-member group that touts itself as the state's largest GOP volunteer organization, has been circulating bitter remembrances of a 1999 feud between Lungren and the California Republican Party.</p>

<p>In a move that could renew charges that Gov. Gray Davis engaged in improper campaign fund-raising tactics years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal in the case that would have forever kept the accusations against him secret.</p>