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BY ERIKA BOLSTAD, JASON GROTTO AND DAVID KIDWELL
More than 2,100 Florida voters — many of them black Democrats — could be wrongly barred from voting in November because Tallahassee elections officials included them on a list of felons potentially ineligible to vote, a Herald investigation has found.
A Florida Division of Elections database lists more than 47,000 people the department said may be ineligible to vote because of felony records. The state is directing local elections offices (…)

By Bernard Simon in Toronto
For much of their careers, Gilles Duceppe and Jack Layton have been accustomed to crusading rather than compromising.
Mr Duceppe, leader of the pro-separatist Bloc Québécois, spent five years as an orderly in a Montreal hospital, trying to recruit unskilled workers to a hard-line communist group.
Mr Layton, head of the New Democratic party, made his mark as one of Toronto’s most flamboyant city councillors, railing against the establishment and campaigning (…)

Attempts at censorship will backfire
Leader
The Observer
Finally, Saddam Hussein is to be judged for his crimes. The sight of the former dictator, stripped of power and brought before a court to answer charges of genocide, murder and brutality, should be profoundly satisfying. The image of Saddam in chains speaks of a world where evil does not go unpunished, where justice is done and seen to be done. And yet, there is also cause to feel uneasy about the proceedings in Baghdad.
Saddam (…)

Pamela McClintock, STAFF
NEW YORK — U.S. news networks agreed to let the American military censor out certain images of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)’s court hearing Thursday in Baghdad, one in a bizarre series of events surrounding coverage of the session.
American and Iraqi officials did not want any footage shown of Iraqi guards or court personnel, and they asked broadcast and cable news nets to honor this request.
But the situation took an unexpected turn even before the (…)

by Ibrahim Ebeid
The US occupation of Iraq is taking a new stage camouflaged by an Iraqi face in order to continue misleading the World in general and the American people in particular. Every step that President George W. Bush has taken led to a failure. His strategy to subdue the Iraqi people suffered an unprecedented defeat and was exposed to the entire World. His lies were exposed.
The weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq because they were the creation and fabrication of (…)

A purported Iraqi resistance group has published a statement claiming responsibility for beheading a US marine.
The Muntada al-Islam website carried a message from a group calling itself Jaish Ansar al-Sunna - who promised to provide video evidence of Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun’s decapitation. "We would like to inform you that the Marine of Lebanese descent has been killed, and you will soon see the movie with your own eyes," said the statement, signed by Abu Abd Allah al-Hasan bin (…)

By Robert Fisk Bags beneath his eyes, beard greying, finger-jabbing with anger, Saddam was still the same fox, alert, cynical, defiant, abusive, proud. Yet history must record that the new "independent" government in Baghdad yesterday gave Saddam Hussein an initial trial hearing that was worthy of the brutal old dictator.
He was brought to court in chains and handcuffs. The judge insisted that his own name should be kept secret. The names of the other judges were kept secret. (…)

By Michelle Delio
To get a copy of the Mozilla open source browser, go to http://www.mozilla.org
Hackers have long insisted that steering clear of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is one of the easiest ways to protect computers from many of the security threats that lurk on the Internet.
That suggestion is often greeted with apathy or angry accusations that the geek in question was indulging in Microsoft-bashing — admittedly a not-uncommon activity in hacker circles.
But last (…)

NEW YORK — The Supreme Court Term that ended today will long be remembered for its emphatic repudiation of the Bush administration’s claim that it can conduct the war on terrorism as it sees fit with virtually no opportunity for meaningful judicial review, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.
NEW YORK — The Supreme Court Term that ended today will long be remembered for its emphatic repudiation of the Bush administration’s claim that it can conduct the war on terrorism as it sees (…)

Synopsis
Supreme Court issued a historic ruling on Monday, June 28th, finding that the hundreds of men detained as "enemy combatants" in Guantánamo Bay can challenge their detention in federal courts.
Description and Status
On June 28, The Supreme Court issued a historic ruling in Rasul v. Bush, CCR’s challenge to the Bush Administration’s policy of indefinitely holding detainees at Guantánamo Bay without judicial review. Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) hailed today’s (…)