Tony Blair yesterday made the final public breach with Clare Short when he branded his erstwhile cabinet colleague a liar for claiming that he made a "secret agreement" with George Bush as long ago as last September to wage war on Iraq.
As opposition politicians and dissident Labour MPs piled the pressure on the government, the prime minister discarded his usual references to "Clare" to say that allegations by "Clare Short" were "completely and totally untrue."
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department mistreated some of the hundreds of foreigners detained after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a report released Monday by the department's own inspector general.
Glenn A. Fine's 198-page report found that some of the 762 mostly Middle Eastern men held on immigration violations faced a "pattern of physical and verbal abuse" and were held for excessive periods without being informed of the charges they faced.