2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 13, 2006 NATION/WORLD Mexican migrants from the state of Chiapas wait for nighfall to begin crossing the Arizona desert into the U.S. near the town of Sasabe, Mexico. Migrants rush to Arizona bord WASHINGTON Bush's original W I intelligence was false President Bush's claim three years ago that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq was based on U.S. intelligence that was later proved false, the White House acknowledged yesterday. Spokesman Scott McClellan vigorously denied suggestions that Bush was making claims that already had been debunked when he said that two small trailers seized in Iraq were mobile biological laboratories. McClellan did not directly answer questions about whether Bush, when he made his statement, was aware that a team of experts had already concluded the trailers were not involved with WMD manufacturing. "The White House is not an intelligence-gathering agency," McClellan said. He said Bush was relying on information from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency that said the trailers were used to produce biological weapons. The Washington Post'reported yesterday that experts on a Pentagon-spon- sored mission who examined the trailers concluded that they had nothing to do with biological weapons and sent their findings to Washington in a classified field report on May 27, 2003. TEHRAN, Iran Iran vows to ramp up uranium enrichment Iran intends to enrich uranium on a scale hundreds of times larger than its cur- rent level, the country's deputy nuclear chief said yesterday, signaling its resolve to expand a program the international community insists it halt. AP PHOTO President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran for the first time had succeeded on a small scale in enriching uranium, a key step in generating fuel for a reactor or fissile material for a bomb. The U.N. Security Council has demanded that Iran stop all enrichment activity because of suspicions the program's aim is to make weapons. .1. Iran's small-scale enrichment used 164 centrifuges, which spin uranium gas to increase its proportion of the isotope needed for the nuclear fission at the heart of a nuclear reactor or a bomb. andoned Saeedi said Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it d them- plans to install 3,000 centrifuges at its facility in the central town of Natanz by late hey were 2006, then expand to 54,000 centrifuges, though he did not say when. ry again BAGRAM, Afghanistan hacan Records stolen off military base, sold in markets ," Mon- A shopkeeper outside the U.S.-led coalition headquarters in Afghanistan was selling computer memory drives yesterday containing seemingly sensitive military data stolen not only from inside the base - including the Social Security numbers of four American generals. nnesota, This shopkeeper was apparently not the only merchant in local bazaars trying to cows on get some cash in exchange for hardware and software containing such files. bout the The surfacing of the stolen computer devices has sparked an urgent American mili- egally. tary probe for the source of the embarrassing security breach, which has led to disks lenty of with the personal letters and biographies of soldiers and lists of troops who completed ike they nuclear, chemical and biological warfare training going on sale for $20 to $50. nits," he HOUSTON re beingnvocecmp y e United Enron CEO vouches for company founder hat law- Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling spoke up for company founder Kenneth er. Lay for the first time in the executives' fraud and conspiracy trial yesterday, saying the ghtened two were a "good team" that never knowingly broke the law. g points The ex-CEO has focused on addressing prosecution testimony damaging to himself e 1990s, since he took the witness stand on Monday. migrants Even though most criminal counts pending against him and Lay allege crimes that ol, mes- occurred at different times before Enron crashed in scandal in December 2001, an risking overarching conspiracy count alleges they participated in a sprawling effort to portray te hands Enron as strong when they knew accounting tricks hid bad news and weak ventures. Possibility of reform in immigration laws triggers surge in migrants at border NOGALES, Mexico (AP) - At a shelter overflowing with migrants airing their blistered feet, Francisco Ramirez nursed muscles sore from trekking through the Arizona desert - a trip that failed when his wife did not have the strength to go on. He said the couple would rest for a few days, then try again, a plan echoed by dozens reclining on rickety bunk beds and carpets tossed on the floor after risking violent bandits and the harsh desert in unsuccessful attempts to get into the United States. The shelter's manager, Francisco Loureiro, said he has not seen such a rush of migrants since 1986, when the United States allowed 2.6 million ille- gal residents to get American citizen- ship. This time, the draw is a bill before the U.S. Senate that could legalize some of the 11 million people now ille- gally in the United States while tight- ening border security. Migrants are hurrying to cross over in time to quali- fy for a possible guest-worker program - and before the journey becomes even harder. "Every time there is talk in the north of legalizing migrants, people get their hopes up, but they don't realize how hard it will be to cross," Loureiro said. South-central Arizona is the busiest detentions to an increase in the number of Border Patrol agents. "We've sent more technology and agents there, and I think that's had an impact," she said. But Loureiro, who has managed the shelter for 24 years, said the debate in the U.S. Congress has triggered a surge in migrants. In March, 2,000 migrant-smug- gling area, and detentions by the U.S. Bor- der Patrol there are up more than 26 per- cent this fiscal year - 105,803 since Oct. 1, compared with 78,024 for the same period a year ago. Along the entire bor- der, arrests are up 9 percent. Maria Valen- "Every time there is talk in the north of legalizing migrants, people don't realize how hard it will be to cross. migrants stayed at the shelter - 500 more than last year. Many migrants said they were being encouraged to come now by relatives living in the United States. One of them is Ramirez, a 30-year-old who earned about legs cramped, their guide aba them and the couple turne selves in to U.S. authorities. ThI deported. But they said they would ti when they regained their streng "We can't go back to Mi because there is no future there dragon said. Ramirez said the draw wasn the prospect of work in Mi where two of his brothers milk< a ranch. He was also excited a idea he might be able to do it le "My brothers said there is p work there, and that it looks i will start giving (work) perm said. Many of the migrants also a driven by a desire to get into the States before the likelihood th makers further fortify the bord Since the United States ti security at the main crossing in Texas and California in the hundreds of thousands of r have turned to the hard-to-patr quite-covered Arizona desert, rape, robbery and murder at th of gangs and now facing arm civilian groups. - Francisco Loureiro Migrant shelter manager cia, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the rise in detentions did not necessarily mean more people were crossing. She attrib- uted at least some of the additional $80 a week at a rebar factory in Mexi- co's central state of Michoacan. He spent an entire night walking through the Arizona desert with his wife, Edith Mondragon, 29. When her ed U.S. - Compiled from Daily wire reports 0 CORRECTIONS urors hear 9/11 tape in M oussaou tralPlease report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. Defense to argue that suspected terrorist was mentally unstable, only played small role ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial lis- tened yesterday to a recording of terri- fied shouts and cries in the cockpit as desperate passengers twice charged panicked hijackers during the final half hour of doomed United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001. "Is that it? I mean, shall we pull it down?" one hijacker asked in Arabic 123 seconds before the 757 jetliner slammed into a Pennsylvania field with 33 pas- sengers, seven crew members and four hijackers. "Yes, put it in it, and pull it down" another voice replied in Arabic. In the remaining two minutes, more voices are heard than earlier, including some that say in English: "Go. Go" "Move. Move." "Push, push, push, push, push." Then in Arabic: "Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me." Finally in Arabic: "Allah in the great- est. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest." Then only the roar of static. The government rested its case for exe- cuting Sept. 11 conspirator Mouss- aoui shortly after 17 jurors and alternates and 150 audience mem- bers became the first people other than investigators and victims' rela- tives to hear the only audible cockpit recording recovered from the four jetliners hijacked by al-Qaida in the nation's most deadly terrorist attack. Today court-appointed defense lawyers will begin arguing that the 37-year-old Frenchman, who was in jail in Minnesota on 9/11, played so small a role and had such mental problems that he deserves life in pris- on instead of execution. The jurors couldn't take their eyes off the video screens - even during long silent periods - as prosecutors used a multimedia presentation to try to put them inside the Flight 93 cockpit. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com DONN M. 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