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SAN FRANCISCO —
i Demonstrators rallied outside
i Wall Street firms in dozens of
cities Thursday to protest what
they say is a conspiracy
between politicians and
bankers to privatize Social
Security.
The demonstrations included
) a protest at the San Francisco
| headquarters of Charles
Schwab Corp., where about
1,000 people gathered — some
of them pounding drums and
carrying signs.
The event was among
protests in about 70 cities spon-
| sored by the AFL-CIO, draw-
ing labor union members and
those in or nearing retirement.
Jan Adams, a 57-year-old
San Francisco woman who is
contemplating retirement, said Associated Press photo/Ted S. Warren
she believes President Bush is IRENE HULL, 92, of Seattle, sits on a seat built into her walker as
trying to help friends from Wall she protests the privitization of Social Security Thursday in front of
Street make extra profits while a Charles Schwab brokerage in downtown Seattle. Protesters said
putting retirees and middle- they feel financial services companies will profit if President Bush
said.
Fighters from the Sunni
Muslim-led insurgency staged police in Karbala closed streets
a string of attacks on Shiite pil- to vehicles, set up checkpoints
grirns in the days leading up to and frisked people for
the festival, which marks the
in dozens of intelligence reports
before the March 2003 invasion
— was the administration’s conclusions,
leading argument for toppling
Saddam Hussein.
HOUSTON —-Acontractor’s idling
diesel truck may have sucked in a
hydrocarbon liquid and vapor cloud
release sparking last week’s fiery ente/the isomerization unit, where the
explosion at a Texas refinery that explosion occurred, they plan to look
“This behavior by a diesel engine
indicates the presence of a flammable
atmosphere entering the air intake. A
Capability did
not significantly
±?nge as a
result of war
SALINAS, Calif. —A great
white shark that survived far
longer than any other in cap-
tivity was returned to the wild
Thursday because it was
growing too large and had
begun preying on other fish at
the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The shark, captured by a
halibut fisherman off the
coast of Orange County in
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mously by the bipartisan nine- astrophic damage,
member panel, followed the Commissioners found intelli-
failure of U.S. inspectors in Iraq gence collectors didn’t provide
to turn up any weapons of mass enough information or were
destruction. The existence of deceived by discredited sources
weapons stockpiles — detailed and analysts relied on old
assumptions about Saddam’s
intentions and' overstated their :
“On a matter of this impor-
tance, we simply cannot afford
Numerous blue-ribbon panels failures of this magnitude,” said
since the attacks of Sept. 11, the report, which exceeded 600
2001, have investigated intelli- pages,
gence shortfalls. This commis-
sion — in the bluntest of terms
— provided the most compre- Bush administration officials
ing they were not empowered to
examine that.
Underscoring the political
divide, Democrats — including
Bush’s 2004 opponent,
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry
— used the findings to demand
faster changes and to point fin-
gers.
“The investigation will not be
complete unless we know how
the Bush administration may
have used or misused intelli-
gence to pursue its own agen-
da,” said House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
latest attack on Shiite Muslim
I pilgrims marking a major reli-
gious holiday.
The blast in Tuz. Khormato,
55 miles south of Kirkuk,
killed three civilians, including
a child, and two soldiers help- where hundreds of thousands southern Iraq. On Monday, twp
ing guard the shrine, police of pilgrims visited two shrines, attacks on pilgrims left four
marched in honor of Hussein dead, including two police
wounded, hospital officials and beat their chests with their officers.
Group Vice President John Mogford desulfurization unit and debris field,
said in a statement. Workers told Texas City officials
Mogford said BP hopes to complete naphtha and hydrogen were burning at
its fact-finding investigation next the plant after the fiery March 23
Investigators on Thursday had put idling near a vent that released a week and begin to analyze data, docu- explosion.
was reached late Thursday, i stand all of the contributing factors CSB investigators had planned
Meanwhile, investigators continued rather than just the obvious ones,” BP Thursday to examine the naphtha
Detailing the failure of intelligence
Weapons of mass destruction intelligence errors were made in
relation to countries other than Iraq, according to the presidential
commission report released Thursday.
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cide car bomber blew himself
up Thursday near an Islamic
shrine, killing five Iraqis^in the end of a 40-day mourning peri- were reported.
Late Wednesday, gunmen
frisked people for
weapons. No major incidents
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of the Prophet Muhammad and ambushed a truck carrying pil-
one of Shiites’ most important grims near Hillah, 60 miles
saints. south of Baghdad, and killed
The day’s biggest gathering one person, and an attack earli-
was in the holy city of Karbala, er in the day killed a pilgrim ip
WASHINGTON—A damn-
ing report by a presidential
commission concluded
Thursday that the United States
knows “disturbingly little”
about nuclear and biological
threats from dangerous adver-
saries, years after the Sept. 11
attacks and the nation’s intelli-
gence missteps on Iraqi
weapons.
Urging dramatic changes in
the U.S. spy agencies, the com-
mission called crucial intelli-
gence judgments on Iraq “dead
wrong” and said the flaws it
found “are still all too com-
mon.”
Though he initially opposed
the panel’s creation, President
Bush promised immediate
action at a news conference
with retired Judge Laurence
Silberman, a Republican, and
former Democratic Sen.
Charles Robb of Virginia, the
commission’s co-chairmen.
“To win the war on terror, we
will correct what needs to be
fixed,” Bush said.
The commission offered 74
recommendations aimed at
changing the structure and cul-
ture of the nation’s 15 spy agen-
cies. It called for more clarity in
the powers of the newly created
national intelligence director, an
overhaul of national security
efforts in the Justice
Department and dozens of
changes in intelligence collec-
tion and analysis.
“There is no more important
intelligence mission than under-
standing the worst weapons that
our enemies possess, and how
they intend to use them against of a c]umSy intelligence appara-
l"e commission said. tus struggling to penetrate Iraqi administration manipulated the
These are their deepest secrets, OperatiOns and wrongly con- data for political purposes, as
locking them must be our cluding that Saddam had Dem0Crats have contended,
weapons capable of causing cat- with commission members say-
Aquarium releases shark that set captivity record
August, was in captivity for clear signs on Monday, we
198 days. The previous captiv- decided an immediate release
ity record was 16 days. would be best.”
It was also the first great Aquarium staff released the
white to regularly eat outside shark south of Monterey Bay.
the wild, putting on 100 Its movement will be tracked
pounds while at the aquarium, for 30 days with an electronfc
“The larger she grew, the tag that was attached before
more that human safety and its release.
animal welfare concerns During its stay in Monterey,
became a factor in our think- the shark had grown from a
ing,” said Randy Hamilton, length of 5 feet and a weight
vice president of husbandry of 62 pounds to 6 feet, 4 inch-
for the aquarium. “It’s more es and 162 pounds. It was
risky to handle a larger ani- about a year old when it was
mal.” caught.
The predator had killed two The aquarium acquired ji
soupfin sharks earlier this wealth of information on how
year, although aquarium offi-
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shark was hunting at the time. Mark Berman, assistant
After close observation this director of the International
week, researchers noticed it Marine Mammal Project at
was starting to exhibit true
hunting behavior.
“We’ve been watching to
see if she was actively hunting ing efforts against keeping
other animals in the exhibit,” dn,pt’i”c, nr,’a'
Hamilton said. “When we saw advanced sea life in captivity.
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Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
respirators and planned to enter the hydrocarbon liquid and vapor cloud, ments and interviews it has gathered
where the explosion originated The liquid and vapor cloud fell to the to reconstruct and identify causes of
\ March 23, but their trek to the heart of ground moments before the explo- the refinery explosion.
driver reported trying to shut off the the explosion site was halted. sion. “We will turn over to government
engine but was unable to do so.” CSB investigators said late The explosion shot flames, ash and agencies responsible for investigating
Hoyle said once CSB investigators Thursday they had to resolve site blackened metal into the sky and was
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..... . . .... , , c issues with the U.S. Occupational “It is easy to jump to simple con-
killed 15 and injured more than 100, for the truck engine and determine Safety and Health Administration and elusions, but in an incident like this it
witnesses have indicated to investiga- whether it was an ignition source for BP officials. Hoyle said an agreement is important we systematically under- help them reach their conclusions.”
the liquid and vapor cloud release. was reached late Thursday.t stand all of the contributing factors
“There are multiple possible I
sources of ignition in an operating interviewing witnesses.
begin to rev up and race,” U.S. refinery unit and we have made no
Chemical Safety and Hazard determination . about the ignition abott seeing a contractors’ diesel
Investigation Board manager Bill source at this time,” Hoyle said. pickup truck that was parked and
Hoyle said in a statement Thursday.
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