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Bush discusses free-trade pact WASHINGTON (AP) President George W. Bush reassured Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday that the United States would work quickly to sort out remaining details of a free trade pact signed in February. "I will submit the agreement to Congress once it gets done, and I would hope members of both political parties understand the importance of a free trade agreement with this vital ally of ours," Bush told reporters after an Oval Office meeting with Uribe. Bush said the leaders also spoke about how Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru agreed on Tuesday to chart new trade plans with 'Washington but in the absence of Venezuela, a major U.S. critic.
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saw billions of dollars wiped off its value Wednesday as shares plummeted by 26 percent to close at 18.80 euros after it warned that operating profit would be cut by about 500 million euros ($625 million) each year between 2007 and 2010. The dismal day for Airbus reflected a sharp shift in the Toulouse, France-based company's fortunes since the 555-passenger A380 took a triumphant maiden flight last year over the Pyrenees. Airbus overtook Boeing in order numbers in 2001 and in deliveries in 2003 and until recently looked in robust shape. 2006 A6 Minister arrives in Gaza loaded with cash RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) to demand their overdue salaries. Hours after angry civil servants They threw water bottles, tissue stormed parliament, the Pales- boxes and other small items at tinian foreign minister came Hamas lawmakers and forced the back Wednesday from a trip to parliament speaker to flee.
Muslim nations carrying The second attack on the parliastuffed with $20 million in cash for ment this week, along with the his money-starved government. shooting death of a Hamas gunThe piles of bills were a sign of man in the Gaza Strip, cast doubt Hamas' desperation in the face of on renewed efforts by leaders of a Western boycott. The Islamic the rival Fatah and Hamas pargroup, which runs the Palestinian ties to halt infighting. government and whose charter Tensions have been high since calls for Israel's destruction, has Hamas defeated Fatah in legislarefused to cave in to calls by tive elections in January. PalesWestern donor 1 nations to tinian President Mahmoud renounce violence' and recognize Abbas, a Fatah leader who was the Jewish state.
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9 p.m. 1 KHALID MOHAMMED The Associated Press SEARCH Iraqi Interior Ministry commandos frisk a motorist and search his car Wednesday in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraqi troops were out in 1 force and cars were backed up at checkpoints Wednesday in Baghdad as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki started a major security crackdown. Crackdown slows violence Iraqi people crave 'normal' lives BY HAMZA HENDAWI The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq Government forces fanned out across Baghdad on Wednesday, setting up checkpoints, frisking motorists and causing huge traffic jams on the first day of the largest security operation in Iraq's capital since Saddam Hussein's ouster three years ago. President George W. Bush, back in Washington after a surprise visit to Iraq, said the crackdown offered the promise of reducing the violence that has plagued the capital.
The only reported clash between army troops and gunmen in Baghdad happened before noon in the Azamiyah neighborhood, when heavy exchanges of gunfire shattered the late morning quiet and sent residents, including women and children, scurrying for cover. Overall, violence dipped slightly in the capital Wednesday, with one car bombing killing four and wounding six. Another four people died in separate shooting incidents around Iraq. Many stores were shut in Azamiyah and Dora, both strongholds of the Sunni Arab insurgency. Entire streets looked virtually deserted in Dora, including one residents have dubbed "death road" because of the frequent -clashes there between insurgents and police.
"If this security plan really works, then perhaps I will be encouraged to go out of my neighborhood," Mohammed Yehia, a 30-year-old father of two, said at the marble-tiled plaza outside the Grand Imam Abu Hanifa mosque in Azamiyah. Yehia said fears of being killed by Shiite militants have prevented him from venturing out of Azamiyah since the Feb. 22 destruction of a revered Shiite shrine an attack which unleashed the worst and longest bout of sectarian violence since Saddam's ouster. "It has been three years," said Yehia, who makes a living doing odd jobs at the Grand Imam mosque. "We have had enough.
We are all yearning for normal lives." Operation Forward Together, involving 75,000 Iraqi army and police forces backed by U.S. troops, began at a crucial time one day after Bush visited Baghdad to reassure Iraqis of Washington's continued support and exactly a week after the death of terror leader Abu Musab al-Zargawi. It was also the first major action by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki since his new government of national unity was sworn in May 20, and a week after he gained the consensus he needed from Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups to fill three key posts defense, interior and national security. Police nab illegal immigrants in raids Sweep nets about 2,100 people BY ANDREW RYAN The Associated Press BOSTON A swarm of federal immigration agents sped silently, headlights off, down a Boston side street early Wednesday and surrounded an apartment house. "Police! Policia! Police!" yelled Daniel Monico, a deportation officer, holding his badge to a window where someone had pulled back the curtain.
"Open the door!" Moments later, agents led a dazed-looking Jose Ferreira Da Silva, 35, out in handcuffs. The Brazilian had been arrested in 2002 and deported, but had slipped back into the country. He now faces up to 20 years in prison. In a blitz that began May 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested about 2,100 illegal immigrants across the country.
Officials said the raids are aimed at child moles- The Associated Press QUESTIONS Marc Raimondi of Homeland Security watches as a woman is questioned Wednesday about a fugitive sought by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland were Agency. arrested. About 2,100 Homeland ters, gang members and other violent criminals, as well as people like Da Silva who sneaked back into the country after a judge threw them out. The crackdown is called Operation Return to Sender. "This sends a message," said Monico, standing outside the gray Victorian apartment where Da Silva had been hiding.
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The government has conducted large-scale immigration sweeps before. April 20, agents nabbed 1,100 illegal immigrants..
