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Louis Freeh says he ‘distrusted’ Bill Clinton In ‘My FBI,’ the agency’s former director attacks the former president for getting bogged down in scandal and for weak stance on terror

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A slum-based human rights group demanded an investigation Sunday into reports that Haitian police shot and killed at least four people and burned 12 homes during raids to root out gang members in a slum filled with supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "We deplore these actions and demand they be investigated," said Jean Yves Altemar, a member of Collective Reflection for the Defense of Human Rights, a group that documents rights abuses in Port-au-Prince slums. The group also accused U.N. peacekeepers of doing nothing to stop police from setting fire to cinderblocks shacks and opening...

NEW YORK -- In its final report due out this week, the 9-11 Commission will disclose new evidence suggesting that the hard-line Islamist clerics who now exercise near total control over Iran directed their border guards to help jihadists coming from Afghanistan. And sometime between October 2000 and February 2001, eight to 10 of the "muscle" hijackers of the September 11 plot were among those who benefited, reports Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff in the July 26 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, July 19). That conclusion -- the strongest evidence yet of a relationship between Iran and Al Qaeda --...