2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 28, 2006 NATION/WORLD Senate clashes on guest workers Protesters across the country demonstrate as Judiciary Committee mulls immigration bills WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Judiciary Committee struggled toward approval yesterday of sweeping, elec- tion-year legislation affecting the fate of 11 million illegal immigrants and uncounted others yet to arrive. Street protests spread from California to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. "If we work together, I'm confident we can meet our duty to fix our immi- gration system and deliver a bill that protects our people, upholds our laws and makes our people proud," Presi- dent Bush said, attending a naturaliza- tion ceremony for new citizens a few blocks from where lawmakers worked. It wasn't easy, though, as senators on the Judiciary Committee haggled in a daylong session over a measure that is to reach the Senate floor today. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) won approval for a five-year program to permit as many as 1.5 million agri- culture workers into the country. "It will provide the agriculture industry with a legal work force and offer agri- culture workers a path to citizenship," she said. The vote was 11-5, with Republicans casting all the votes in opposition. In addition, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) prevailed on a proposal to allow an additional 400,000 green cards for future immigrants, regardless of the industry where they find jobs. But lawmakers disagreed sharply over the terms of temporary worker programs affecting future immigrants. They clashed, as well, over whether to require illegal workers who are current- ly in the United States to return to their home countries before being allowed to apply for American citizenship. Kennedy and other Democrats said no, and appeared to have enough GOP allies on the committee to prevail in a showdown. But Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona and other conservatives said anything but a requirement for illegal immigrants to return home amounted to amnesty. Kyl said he had national opinion on his side., "Well over 60 percent of Americans in all the polls I see think it's OK to have temporary workers, but you do not have to make them citizens," said the Republican lawmaker, who is seeking re-election this fall. "We have a fundamental difference between the way you look at them and the way I look at them," Kennedy observed later. The committee met as several thou- sand demonstrators rallied at the foot of the Capitol. Many were members of the clergy who donned handcuffs and sang "We Shall Overcome," the unofficial anthem of the civil rights era. "The first Christian value is love thy neighbor," read some of the signs. BAGHDAD Shiite politicians quit talks over U.S. raid AP PHOTO This artist's rendering shows Zacarias Moussaoui, left, telling his defense attorneys that he wants to testify dur- ing his sentencing trial, on Thursday at the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. Moussaoui says he was i to fly 5t1 Suspect tells court he and shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to fly plane into White House ALEXANDRIAVa. (AP) - Laying out a stunning new version of his terror- ist mission, al-Qaida conspirator Zac- arias Moussaoui testified yesterday that he was supposed to hijack a fifth jetliner on Sept. 11, 2001, with would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid and fly it into the White House. Testifying against the advice of his court-appointed lawyers, Moussaoui shocked the courtroom. Jurors who will decide whether he is executed or impris- oned for life were almost motionless dur- ir.g his nearly three hours on the stand. They didn't look down to take notes; all eyes locked on the bearded 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent - the only person charged in this country in connection with Sept. 11. His testimony started in familiar territory. He denied that he was sup- posed to be the so-called missing 20th d Lpla n e4 hijacker of Sept. 11. He testified he was not intended to be a fifth terrorist on United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed into a Pennsylvania field - the only plane hijacked by four instead of five terrorists. Then came the shock. Defense attorney Gerald Zerkin: "Before your arrest, were you sched- uled to pilot a plane as part of the Sept. 11 operation?" Moussaoui: "Yes. I was supposed to pilot a plane to hit the White House" He said he didn't know details of the other hijackings set for that day except that planes were to be flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Zerkin asked if he knew who else would be on his plane. "Richard Reid. The other crew mem- bers were not definite" Moussaoui replied, referring to a man he had met in the 1990s at London's Finsbury Park mosque where Islamic fundamentalists recruited followers. On Dec. 22, 2001, Reid was subdued by passengers aboard American Air- lines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami when he attempted to detonate a bomb 3fl.9/11 in his shoe. That plane landed safely in Boston. Reid later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. This account by Moussaoui diverged sharply from his previous statements including his confession when pleading guilty last April. For three years, he has said he had no involvement in the Sept. 11 plot. Instead, he has said he was taking pilot lessons in Minnesota to fly a 747 jet- liner into the White House at a later date if the United States refused to release a radical Egyptian sheik imprisoned for separate terrorist convictions. Former federal prosecutor Pres- ton Burton said in an interview that Moussaoui was admitting "far more individual involvement than he had made before" Now in private prac- tice in Washington, Burton called it "a stunning revelation that would help prosecutors rather than him." On cross-examination, prosecutor Rob Spencer underlined that Moussaoui was now saying his attack was to be part of the Sept. 11 plot. Spencer: "Osama bin Laden put you back in as the pilot of the fifth plane?" Moussaoui: "That's correct." Shiite politicians raged at the United States and halted negotiations on a new government yesterday after a military assault killed at least 16 people in what Iraqis claim was a mosque. Fresh violence erupted in the north, with 40 killed in a suicide bombing. The firestorm of recrimination over Sunday's raid in northeast Baghdad will likely make it harder for Shiite politicians to keep a lid on their more angry fol- lowers as sectarian violence boils over, with at least 151 dead over the two-day period. A unity government involving Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds is a benchmark for American hopes of starting to withdraw troops this summer. There were numerous conflicting statements from Iraqis and the Americans about the raid. Iraqi police, Shiite militia officials and major politicians have all said the structure attacked was the al-Mustafa mosque. But the U.S. military dis- puted this, saying no mosques were entered and that the raid targeted a building used by "insurgents responsible for kidnapping and execution activities." KABUL, Afghanistan Afghan Christian convert seeks asylum abroad An Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Chris- tianity has appealed for asylum in another country, the United Nations said yesterday after hundreds of Muslims marched against a court's decision to dismiss his case. Afghan officials did not say whether Abdul Rahman had been released after the case against him was dismissed Sunday, but the U.N. statement came amid uncon- firmed reports that he was being freed. "We do understand that he will be released," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in Washington. "We're pleased by that." Earlier yesterday, hundreds of clerics, students and others chanting "Death to Christians!" marched through the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif to protest the court's decision to toss out the case. Several Muslim clerics have threatened to incite Afghans to kill Rahman if he is freed, saying that he is clearly guilty of apostasy and deserves to die. NEW ORLEANS Judge refuses to put off mayoral election A federal judge yesterday refused to delay New Orleans's April 22 may- oral election, telling both sides to solve any problems that might hinder displaced residents' ability to vote. "If you are a displaced citizen, like I am, we have a burning desire for completeness," said U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle, whose own New Orleans home flooded after Hurricane Katrina. Lemelle said voting will help the city rebuild, but he warned that its resi- dents have already lost trust in institutions. "I recognize that there is still room for improvement in that electoral process," he said. NEW YORK Former Enron exec's testimony challenged Lawyers for Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay sought yesterday to weaken testimony from the company's treasurer that Lay lied to employees and Wall Street about Enron's financial health in October 2001. Ben Glisan Jr. acknowledged under cross-examination in the fraud and conspiracy trial of Lay and former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling that he had assured Lay and company directors that Enron had adequate access to cash to operate. The ex-treasurer asserted last week that he had advised his boss in a separate conversation that liquidity was strained and cash flow was paltry. - Compiled from Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS A story on page 5A of yesterday's Daily (Blowin' in the Wind) incorrectly identi- fied the cost of Noble Environmental Power's wind turbine construction project. The actual cost is $90 million. The same story also mistakenly described the second phase of the project. It should have said the second phase has added seven leases, bringing the total number of wind turbines to 39.,, Please report any error in the Daily to corrections Cmichigandaily.coin. A New pill may prevent AIDS Scientists say two drugs already used to treat HIV seem to prevent disease in monkeys ATLANTA (AP) - Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases jolted the world, scientists think they soon may have a pill that people could take to keep from getting the virus that causes the global killer. Two drugs already used to treat HIV infection have shown such promise at preventing it in monkeys that officials last week said they would expand early tests in healthy high-risk men and women around the world. "This is the first thing I've seen at this point that I think really could have a prevention impact," said Thomas Folks, a federal scientist since the earliest days of AIDS. "If it works, it could be distributed quickly and could blunt the epidemic." Condoms and counseling alone have not been enough - HIV spreads to 10 people every minute, 5 million every year. A vaccine remains the best hope but none is in sight. If larger tests show the drugs work, they could be given to people at highest risk of HIV - from gay men in American cities to women in Africa who catch the virus from their partners. People like Matthew Bell, a 32- year-old hotel manager in San Fran- cisco who volunteered for a safety study of one of the drugs. "As much as I want to make the right choices all of the time, that's not the reality of it," he said of practic- ing safe sex. "If I thought there was a fallback parachute, a preventative, I would definitely want to add that." 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com DoNN M. FRESARD Editor in Chief fresard@michigandaity.com 647-3336 Sun-Thurs. 5 p.m. - 2 a.m. JONATHAN DOBBERSTEIN Business Manager business@michigandaily.com 764-0558 Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Warning... M ay C ause A stounding Beat the Price Increase! Sign up by April 15 to save $100. 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