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NATION/WORLD Friday, July 2, 2010, Page A5

Nation
AP PHOTO
Bail granted for spy suspect
Supporters of accused spy and reporter for
the New York newspaper El Diario, Vicky
Pelaez, cheer outside Manhattan federal
court following the judge’s ruling to grant
bail to Pelaez Thursday.
BP oil spill hits somber record
as Gulf of Mexico’s biggest
NEW ORLEANS — BP’s massive oil spill be-
came the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico
Thursday based on the highest of the federal
government’s estimates, an ominous record that
underscores the oil giant’s dire need to halt the
gusher.
The oil that’s spewed for two and a half
months from a blown- out well a mile under the
Arizona cops will be scrutinized
Officials issue
warning in video
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHOENIX — Police enforc-
ing Arizona’s toughest- in-
the- nation immigration law
are allowed to consider if a
person speaks poor English,
looks nervous or is traveling
in an overcrowded vehicle.
They can even take into ac-
count whether someone is
wearing several layers of
clothing in a hot climate, or
hanging out in an area where
illegal immigrants are known
to look for work.
But top police officials is-
sued a stern warning to offi-
cers Thursday, telling them in
a training video not to con-
sider race or ethnicity and
emphasizing that “the entire
country is watching.”
The officials cautioned that
opponents of the law may se-
cretly videotape police mak-
ing traffic stops in an effort to
prove that they are racially
profiling Hispanics.
“Without a doubt, we’re
going to be accused of racial
profiling no matter what we
do on this,” Tucson Police
Chief Roberto Villasenor tells
officers on the video, which
was posted online. The
recording demonstrates how
officers should determine
when they can ask someone
for proof they are in the
country legally.
Arizona’s law, sparked by
anger over a surging popula-
tion of illegal immigrants in
the border state, generally re-
quires officers enforcing an-
other law — like speeding or
jaywalking — to question a
person’s immigration status if
there’s a reasonable suspicion
that the person is in the coun-
try illegally.
Under the law, officers are
also allowed to consider if a
person does not have identi-
fication or tried to run away.
But the stakes for making a
mistake are high: Officers can
be fired if they start asking
questions because of a per-
son’s race, then lie about it
later, the video warns.
“It is also clear that the ac-
“The entire country
is watching ... ”
Lyle Mann
Executive director
of state police training agency
tions of Arizona officers will
never come under this level of
scrutiny again,” said Lyle
Mann, executive director of
the state agency that trains
police. “Each and every one of
you will now carry the repu-
tation for the entire Arizona
law enforcement community
with you every day.”
The law applies only to a
traffic stop, a person who is
detained or an arrest — not
when a person flags down an
officer. Police are not re-
quired to ask crime victims or
witnesses about their immi-
gration status, and anyone
who shows a valid Arizona
driver’s license is presumed
to be in the country legally.
“The entire country is
watching to see how Arizona
and in particular Arizona
law enforcement responds,”
Mann said.
The law restricts the use of
race, color or national origin
as the basis for triggering im-
migration questions. But civil
rights groups and some police
officials argue that officers
will still assume that illegal
immigrants look Hispanic.
Arizona’s 460,000 illegal
immigrants are almost all
Hispanic. Yet Arizona also
has nearly 2 million Hispanics
who are U.S. citizens or legal
residents, about 30 percent of
the state’s population.
In the training video, an ex-
pert advises officers to ask
themselves whether they
would reach the same conclu-
sion about a Hispanic per-
son’s immigration status if the
subject were white or black.

Shrine bombing
sea hit the 140.6 million gallon mark, eclipsing
the record- setting, 140- million- gallon Ixtoc I
spill off Mexico’s coast from 1979 to 1980. Even
by the lower end of the government’s estimates,
at least 71.7 million gallons are in the Gulf.
The growing total is crucial to track, in part
because London- based BP PLC is likely to be
fined per gallon spilled, said Larry McKinney,
director of Texas A&M University at Corpus
Christi’s Gulf of Mexico research institute.
35 dead, 175 injured in suicide blasts in Pakistan
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago mayor outlines LAHORE, Pakistan —
proposal for gun ordinance Two suicide bombers
CHICAGO — With the city’s gun ban certain struck a popular Muslim
to be overturned, Mayor Richard Daley intro- shrine in Pakistan’s second
duced what city officials say is the strictest largest city, killing 35 people
handgun ordinance in the United States Thurs- and wounding 175 others in
day. the second major attack in
The measure, which draws from ordinances Lahore in a month.
The bombers struck late
around the country, would ban gun shops in Thursday as thousands of
Chicago and prohibit gun owners from stepping people visited the Data
outside their homes, even onto their porches or Darbar shrine, where a fa-
garages, with a handgun. mous Sufi saint is buried.
Daley announced his ordinance at a park on Muslims in Pakistan visit
the city’s South Side three days after the U.S. shrines and mosques in
Supreme Court ruled that Americans have a large numbers on Thursday
right to own a gun for self- defense anywhere and Friday nights.
they live. Lahore has experienced a
The City Council is expected to vote on it growing number of attacks
today. as Taliban fighters along the
northwest border with
Mass. company plans to have Afghanistan have teamed
up with militant groups in
flying cars ready by next year the country’s heartland
once supported by the gov-
WASHINGTON — If cars had wings, they ernment.
could fly — and that just might happen, begin- There was no immediate
ning next year. The company Terrafugia, based claim of responsibility for
in Woburn, Mass., says it plans to deliver its car- the attack. But Islamist ex-
plane, the Transition, to customers by the end of tremists consider Sufis to
2011. It recently cleared a major hurdle when the be heretics and have often
Federal Aviation Administration granted a spe- targeted them, as well as
cial weight limit exemption to the Transition. Shiites and other minority
“It’s the next ‘wow’ vehicle,” said Terrafugia groups.
vice president Richard Gersh. The first bomber deto-
The Transition is a long way from cartoon dad nated his explosives in a AP PHOTO
George Jetson’s flying car zooming above traf- large underground room
where visitors sleep and Family members of victims comfort each other after suicide bombers at-
fic, or even the magical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
“There is no launch button on the [instru- wash themselves before tacked a popular Muslim shrine in the Pakistan city of Lahore late Thursday
ment] panel,” Gersh noted. praying, said Khusro Per- night. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Rather, the car-plane has wings that unfold for vez, the top government of-
ficial in Lahore. the shrine who was getting rocks to disperse the pro- whom are part of now-
flying — a process the company says takes one testers.
The attack occurred as ready to pray when the first banned groups started with
minute — and fold back up for driving. blast occurred. “There were Lahore, the capital of Pak- government support in the
volunteers handed out food
to people visiting the dead bodies all around with istan’s most prosperous 1980s and ’90s to fight the
Prosecutor: Officer lost shrine, said Chaudary Mo- blood and people were cry- province, Punjab, and a key Soviets in Afghanistan and
hammed Shafique, a senior ing.” political, military and cul- pressure archenemy India.
control in train shooting police official. Police initially said they tural center, has been the Many of these groups
LOS ANGELES — A former San Francisco Bay Minutes later, a second were investigating the scene of some of the most have formed links with the
Area transit officer should be convicted of mur- bomber detonated his ex- source of a third blast but spectacular attacks in the Pakistani Taliban, which has
plosives upstairs in a large concluded there were only country over the past year. recruited militants to carry
der because he lost control and intentionally out attacks in parts of Pak-
courtyard in front of the two suicide bombers, On May 28, gunmen and a
shot an unarmed black man on a train platform, suicide squad lobbed istan far from its sanctuary
shrine as people tried to flee whose heads were later
a prosecutor told jurors Thursday. found, said Pervez. grenades and sprayed bul- in the northwest.
Alameda County Deputy District Attorney the first attack, said Pervez.
The blasts ripped con- At least 25 of those lets in attacks on two One of the most high-
David Stein gave an impassioned two-hour clos- crete from the walls, wounded in the attacks mosques in the eastern city profile attacks in Lahore
ing argument, saying the actions of defendant twisted metal gates and left were in critical condition, packed with worshippers came in March 2009, when
Johannes Mehserle on New Year’s Day 2009 wires hanging from the he said. from the minority Ahmadi militants armed with rocket
don’t jibe with his contention that he mistakenly ceiling, television footage Demonstrators gathered sect. launchers, hand grenades
pulled his handgun instead of his Taser stun gun. showed. outside the shrine in the At least 93 people were and assault rifles attacked
Mehserle, 28, pleaded not guilty to murdering Blood stained the shrine’s hours after the attack, killed and dozens wounded. Sri Lanka’s cricket team and
Grant, 22, and resigned from the Bay Area Rapid white marble floor. protesting the security The government has been security detail, killing six
Transit police force after the shooting that was “It was a horrible scene,” lapse that allowed the criticized for lacking the police and a driver and
videotaped by bystanders. said Mohammed Nasir a bombings to occur. Police will to crack down on mili- wounding seven players
volunteer security guard at fired into the air and threw tants in Punjab, many of and a coach.
— Associated Press

World
Guatemalan govt.
warns of conspiracy
GUATEMALA CITY — Guate-
mala’s government accused oppo-
nents Thursday of conspiring
against it, and claimed they could
be preparing to oust President Al-
varo Colom.
In advertisements published in
local newspapers, Colom’s admin-
istration says Guatemala could face
a “break with institutional order
equal to what they did in Hon-
duras.”
Former Honduran President
Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a on Taliban leaders
June 2009 coup. The ads did not
specifically mention a coup, or
identify the purported plotters.
AP PHOTO
Olympic flame lit for Canada Day
Iran leader to visit
The Olympic cauldron burns during Canada Day festivities in
Vancouver, B.C., Thursday. It’s the first time it’s been lit since Nigeria, takes U.N. post nated
the games. LAGOS, Nigeria — Iranian Pres-
ident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will
visit Nigeria this weekend as the
West African nation assumes the
rotating presidency of the United
Nations’ security council, an Iran-
ian diplomat said Thursday.
Ahmadinejad’s visit to Nigeria
comes after the leader made simi-
lar visits to Uganda and Zimbabwe
in April, as the pariah Middle East-
ern nation tries to build alliances
against U.N. sanctions over its nu-
clear program.
NATO boosts attacks
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. and
Afghan troops seized a key Taliban
figure after a four-hour gunbattle
— part of a strategy that NATO of-
ficials said Thursday had elimi-
more than 100 insurgent
leaders in the past four months.
The campaign to disrupt the Tal-
iban’s midlevel command structure
is moving into high gear just as a
new Afghan government is poised
to offer economic incentives to
lure low-level foot soldiers off the
battlefield.
Australia drops plans
for new mining tax
CANBERRA, Australia — Aus-
tralia’s government early today
dropped plans for 40 percent tax
on booming mining company prof-
its, defusing a damaging row with
business and clearing the way for
national elections to be called at
any time.
Mining companies had cam-
paigned against the proposed tax,
and it was a key factor in the ouster
of Kevin Rudd as prime minister
after he refused to negotiate.
— Associated Press