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Philadelphia police released a photo of the suspect in the murder of an officer. Twenty-one-year-old John Lewis is considered armed and dangerous. Lewis was allegedly robbing a doughnut shop Wednesday when officer Chuck Cassidy interrupted. Cassidy was shot in the head and then died on Thursday.

The friends and relatives of a missing police officer's wife have joined the search for her. Twenty-three-year-old Stacy Peterson has been missing for a week. Her husband says she may have left him for another man. Her sister says she may be dead.

Secretary of State Rice says she is disappointed in Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's decision to suspend the constitution. Rice says the U.S will review its aid to the South Asian country and notes that some of the money has directly tied to counter-terrorism methods.

King Tut buck-toothed face has been unveiled for the first time in more than three thousand years. Archeologists briefly lifted a linen on the mummy's face and feet for clear view. The mummy of Egypt, youngest and most famous pharaoh has been placed in a climate-controlled case.

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For all Germans applying for a new passport, the experience might feel more akin to going to a police station. From now on, they'll have their fingerprints taken.

Germany is introducing the 2nd phase of / biometric passports. For 2 years, all new German passports have contained a /chip which stores / biometric data about the passport holder including a digital photo. But all / passports issued from now on will also include the holder's fingerprints. The German government says the new passport will be harder to be forge, which will help in the fight against / organized crime and terrorism. Officials post down town hall near Berlin, one place where people apply for a new a passport/, say the new system is user- friendly. We usually take / fingerprints from the left and right /index fingers with a little scanner.

The whole process is clean and uncomplicated. And we don’t use any black ink or anything like that. But when most people hope the system is “secure”, some citizen groups are critical of the use of / fingerprints in / passports due to personal liberty concerns.

And even the government state protection officer is not convinced that the storing fingerprint information on the chip will make the passports less open to forgery. It would be useful if we could reduce the likelyhood of forgery . But on the other hand, you have to say that already / German and European passports are almost impossible to forge. At least since photos have been stored on chips in all passports, I know of no case where a passport were successfully faked.

Critics of the biometric passports have also lambasted the government for failing to review how much the introduction of these / documents will cost. The Germany interior minister says that fingerprints are as unique as people themselves. And these new passports should help / government stay one step ahead of / criminals. But only time will tell whether the storing biometric details on a chip can completely prevent people from faking passports.

Joanna Partridge from Reuters.

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on Judge Michael Mukasey's nomination to be our next Attorney General. I thank the committee for scheduling this vote. I urge them to approve this fine man's nomination, and send it to the full Senate as quickly as possible.

In a time of war, it is vital for the President to have a full national security team in place -- and the Attorney General is a key member of that team. The Attorney General is America's top law enforcement officer, with critical responsibilities for preventing terrorist attacks and protecting our Nation.

Judge Mukasey is uniquely qualified to fill this vital role. He served nearly two decades on the Federal bench, and some of his most important legal experience is in the area of national security. He presided over the trial of the terrorist known as "the Blind Sheikh" and his co-defendants in the conspiracy to destroy prominent New York City landmarks, including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. And when the World Trade Center was attacked again on September the 11th, 2001, Judge Mukasey quickly reopened his court, even though it was just blocks from Ground Zero. He and other judges in his district worked day and night to ensure that applications for warrants were processed, investigations could proceed, and the rule of law was upheld.

This is the kind of leader America needs to head the Department of Justice at this important moment in our history. Judge Mukasey is a man of achievement. He is a man of character. And he has been praised by Republicans and Democrats alike for his honesty, intellect, fairness, and independence.
Since I sent his nomination to the Senate, Judge Mukasey has provided nearly six hours of testimony. He patiently answered more than 200 questions during his hearings, and he responded promptly to nearly 500 written questions. Yet some senators are working against his nomination because they want him to take a position on the legality of specific techniques allegedly used to question captured terrorists.

As Judge Mukasey explained in a letter to Judiciary Committee members, he cannot give such a legal opinion for several reasons. First, he does not know whether certain methods of questioning are in fact used, because the program is classified, he's not been given access to that information, and therefore he is in no position to provide an informed opinion. Second, he does not want our professional interrogators in the field to take an uninformed opinion he has given in the course of a confirmation hearing as meaning that any conduct of theirs has put them in legal jeopardy.

Finally, he does not want an uninformed legal opinion to give terrorists a window into which techniques we may use, and which we may not. That could help them train their operatives to resist questioning, and withhold vital information we need to stop attacks and save lives.

Congressional leaders should not make Judge Mukasey's confirmation dependent on his willingness to make a public judgment about a classified program he has not been briefed on. If the Senate Judiciary Committee were to block Judge Mukasey on these grounds, it would set a new standard for confirmation that could not be met by any responsible nominee for Attorney General. And that would guarantee that America would have no confirmed Attorney General during this time of war.

Senate leaders should move Judge Mukasey's nomination out of Committee and bring it to the Senate floor for an up or down vote. In this time of war, America needs the best people leading our efforts to protect the American people. With Judge Mukasey serving as Attorney General, our national security team will be stronger -- and the Senate should confirm this good man as quickly as possible.

Thank you for listening.

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[ 本帖最后由 vanbryan 于 2007-11-5  12:55 编辑 ]

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