2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 23, 2006 NATION/WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF r# ill 0 I ' k, f .tea f "~ ' ... r.'1 . 1s WASHINGTON Court ruling limits police searches The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that police cannot search a home when one resident invites them in but another tells them to go away, provoking a strong objec- tion from the new chief justice about the possible impact on battered women. The 5-3 decision put new limits on officers who want to search for evidence of a crime without obtaining a warrant first. If one occupant tells them no, the search is unconstitutional, justices said. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote his first dissent, predicting severe conse- quences for women who want police to come in but are overruled by abusive husbands. The decision ended a trend of one-sided rulings by the court. About two- thirds of the 30 rulings under the leadership of Roberts have been unani- mous, a high number on a court that has in the past been polarized along ideological lines. The court's liberal members, joined by centrist Anthony M. Kennedy, said that an officer responding to a domestic dispute call did not have the authority to enter and search the home of a small-town Georgia lawyer in 2001 even though the man's wife invited him in. :1 AP PH1OO U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales speaks with the media yesterday. Guerla charged f &ALEXANDRIA, Va. w ith drlg Official: 9/11 attacks could have been prevented I 'I VOTED TOP 10 IN THE NATION BY ROLLING S d Pig 208 S. First St. Ann Arbor 996-8555 www.blinapigmusic.com SAVE ONEY! BUY YOUR ADVANCE TIX AT THE BLIND PIG OR INFLIGHT andh Colombian group used $25 billion, earned from international cocaine sales, to fund war WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States charged 50 leaders of Colombia's largest guerrilla group with sending more than $25 billion worth of cocaine around the world to finance their fight at home, a federal indictment that depicts the rebels as major narco-terrorists. The indictment made public yester- day in U.S. District Court said the lead- ers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, ordered the killings of Colombian farmers who did not cooperate with the group, the kid- napping and killing of U.S. citizens and the downing of U.S. planes seeking to fumigate coca crops. U.S. officials said the indictment strikes a blow against the group because it lays out the FARC's hierarchy and details of its operations. "Members of the FARC do not want to face Ameri- can justice," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said. He acknowledged that 47 of those charged remain at large, probably in well-defended jungle strongholds that have so far proved beyond the reach of Colombian authorities. The FARC supplies more than half the world's cocaine and 60 percent of the drug that enters the United States, the indictment said. "The FARC's fin- gerprint is on most of the cocaine sold in America's neighborhoods," said the head of the Drug Enforcement Admin- istration, Karen Tandy. Washington-based experts on Colom- bia said the actual numbers probably are lower, but are significant. Right-wing paramilitary groups also are heav- ily involved in the cocaine trade, the experts and the indictment said. The FARC uses proceeds from the cocaine trade to purchase weapons in its four-decade fight to overthrow the Colombian government, the indictment said. A grand jury returned the indict- ment on March 1; it remained under seal until yesterday. The U.S. and the European Union have designated the FARC a terrorist organization. Colombia President Alvaro Uribe, Washington's closest ally in South America, has waged an aggressive fight against the FARC and stepped up efforts to eradicate his country's coca crop. Uribe faces re-election in May and has been leading in the polls. The U.S. has spent more than $3 bil- lion since 2000 to reduce Colombia's coca crop and the flow of cocaine to this country. The results have been lacklus- ter, said John Walsh, senior analyst at the Washington Office on Latin Ameri- ca, a think tank. The indictment is intended to show that U.S .-Colombian cooperation is "successfully getting at the drug-traf- ficking industry and attacking drug financing," Walsh said. Phillip McLean, a former American diplomat who now is at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said he expects the charges will influence the debate in Colombia between those who view the FARC as a traditional guerrilla group with a political agenda and those who see it as a criminal organization. An aviation security officer testified yesterday that numerous measures could have been instituted to thwart suicide hijackers had officials known in August 2001 that Zacarias Moussaoui was an al-Qaida member plotting to fly jetliners into U.S. buildings. Robert Cammaroto, who was in charge of issuing federal security directives to airlines in 2001, said the Federal Aviation Administration could have moved its just- under-three dozen armed federal air marshals from foreign to domestic flights, tight- ened security checkpoints and directed flight crews to resist rather than cooperate with hijackers. And he said most of these steps could have been ordered by FAA within a matter of hours and remained in effect indefinitely. In 2001, "we believed airplane bombings would not involve suicide," Cammaroto told a U.S. District Court jury which must decide whether Moussaoui is executed or imprisoned for life. BAGHDAD Iraqi forces foil insurgent attack, arrest 50 Emboldened a day after a successful jailbreak, insurgents laid siege to another prison yesterday. This time, U.S. troops and a special Iraqi unit thwarted the pre- dawn attack south of Baghdad, overwhelming the gunmen and capturing 50 of them, police said. Although the raid failed, the insurgents' ability to put together such large and well-armed bands of fighters underlined concerns about the ability of Iraqi police and military to take over the fight from U.S. troops. Sixty militants participated in the assault, which attempted to free more jailed Sunni insurgents, police said. The attack on the prison in Madain, 15 miles southeast of Baghdad, began with insurgents firing 10 mortar rounds. They then stormed the facility, which is run by the Interior Ministry, a predominantly Shiite organization and heavily infiltrated by members of various Shiite militias. WHEELING, W.Va. Bush publicly defends his stance on Iraq Whether he's before a friendly West Virginia audience, a Cleveland club proud of its interrogation skills or a White House news conference, President Bush is drawing on his plainspoken manner in freewheeling venues to defend his Iraq strategy. Alternately serious and joking, charming and disarming in this war anniver- sary week, Bush is trying to counter election-year critics and reverse an approval ratings slide. CORRECTIONS - Compiled from Daily wire reports Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, M148109-1327 www.michigandaily.com DoNN M. 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