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At one station in the Saudia district of Basra, four vehicles were seen destroyed, including two school buses. At least one of the school buses appeared to have been full of passen- gers, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said. A police colonel said about 10 ele- mentary school students whose bus was passing by the Saudia station at the time of the blast were among the dead. The facade of the Saudia station was also heavily damaged and there was a hole six feet deep and nine feet wide in front of the Saudia station. British military spokesman Squadron Leader Jonathan Arnold said the blasts were believed to have been caused by car bombs. The Iraqi colonel said, however, that the blast may have been caused by a rocket attack. Also today, about 35 Iraqi insurgents attacked U.S. Marines in Fallujah with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, setting off a heavy gunbattle, the military said. No casualties were immediately reported. Yesterday, guerrillas fired a barrage of mortar rounds at Baghdad's largest prison, killing 22 prisoners in an attack a U.S. general said may have been an attempt to spark an uprising against their American guards. A U.S. soldier was killed by a road- side bomb in the northern city of Mosul, the 100th American combat death in April, the deadliest month since the U.S.-led invasion began in March 2003. Ninety-two prisoners were wounded in the mortar attack on the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison, 25 of them serious- ly, said Col. Jill Morgenthaler, a U.S. military spokeswoman. "This isn't the first time that we have seen this kind of attack. We don't know if they are trying to inspire an uprising or a prison break," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told The Associated Press. All of the casualties were security detainees, meining they ere'sii- pected of involvement in the anti- U.S. insurgency or of b3ng art of Saddam Husseii's ousf ed rgime. The prison houses some 5,000 secu- rity prisoners. 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Spring/Summer Term Apply now at the Law Library .non-law Students HEADLINES FROM -AR-OUND1 THE WORLD WASHINGTON. GOP supports overtime rule revision Republicans yesterday embraced election-year revisions to the nation's over- time pay rules, saying changes to an earlier Bush administration plan will take away extra pay from far fewer white-collar workers. Democrats expressed skepticism. The administration, said Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, "simply is not trustworthy on the issue." Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said the final version, released yesterday, would allow more white-collar workers to remain eligible for overtime than in a draft proposal issued 13 months ago. Blue-collar workers are unaffected. "Workers will clearly know their rights and employers will clearly know their responsibilities," she said. The revisions, which do not need congressional approval, will take effect in 120 days. Workers who gain overtime protections include lower-wage retail and restau- rant managers. Middle-income workers such as office workers, cooks, inspectors, paralegals, licensed practical nurses and technicians "will have their rights better protected," the department said. Police officers, firefighters and emergency med- ical technicians are named as holding jobs that will not lose overtime protections. WASHINGTON High court hears case on Sept 11 detainees The government can't throw out prisoners' constitutional rights to make their case in court just because the country faces new threats in the war on terrorism, a lawyer for foreign-born detainees argued yesterday in the Supreme Court's first case arising from the Sept. 11 attacks. "It's been plain for 215 years," lawyer John Gibbons argued. The government, he said, cannot create a "lawless enclave" where no court, American or otherwise, can check up on things. "The United States is at war," responded Theodore Olson, the Bush administra- tion's top Supreme Court lawyer. Foreigners held at the Navy's prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, want the Supreme Court to give them a legal right "that is not authorized by Congress, does not arise from the Constitution, has never been exercised by this court,' Olson said. The justices seemed deeply divided over the fate of more than 600 men from 44 countries who have been held for more than two years at the Guantanamo camp, and about the underlying questions concerning presidential powers in wartime. BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraqi leaders set to prosecute Saddam Iraqi leaders have set up a tribunal of judges and prosecutors to try ousted dictator Saddam Hussein and other members of his Baathist regime, a spokesman announced yesterday. Salem Chalabi, a U.S.-educated lawyer and nephew of the head of the Iraqi National Congress, was named as gener- al director of the tribunal, and he has named a panel of seven judges and four prosecutors, INC spokesman Entefadh Qanbar said. The tribunal, with a 2004- 2005 budget of $75 million, will also prosecute any members of Saddam's regime who are charged, Qanbar said. A date has yet to be set for the trial of Saddam, who was captured by U.S. troops in December and has since been held by U.S. troops at an undisclosed location in or near Baghdad. The court and prosecutors will deter- mine charges against Saddam and his former officials, Qanbar said. NEW DEL~I India elections start amid rebel violence Undeterred by kidnappings, deadly rebel attacks and 113-degree heat, Indians cast ballots yesterday in the first day of three-week parliamentary elections that are expected to return the prime minister's governing coali- tion to power. Rebels from the disputed province of Kashmir to India's isolated northeast have promised to sabotage the vote, a gigantic undertaking in the world's largest democ- racy. Violence across the country killed 15 people and wounded 18. Attacks are relatively routine during Indian elections. Voters appeared ready to reward Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vaj- payee for the booming economy and efforts that have made prospects for peace with rival Pakistan their best in years. JERUSALEM Israelis kill five in response to attacks U rih's, Palestinians fired a barrage of home- made rockets and mortar shells at Gaza Strip settlements and towns inside Israel, sparking Israeli reprisals yesterday that killed five Palestinians and wounded 33 others, Palestinian hospital officials said. Over two days, 15 Qassam rockets lift Israeli targets, wounding one Israeli and damaging at least five structures the army'said. Ivwas one of the"most intense rocket barrages in more than three years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. 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