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MADISON - Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle's top aide had hundreds of used hypodermic needles delivered to Assembly Speaker John Gard's Capitol office on behalf of a woman protesting the legislator's stance on stem cell research. Gard's staff immediately called police about Liz Kastner of Fish Creek, who said she asked the governor earlier in July to deliver the needles to Gard for publicity, according to police reports. Investigators warned her not to do it again. She told police her daughter, Isabel, suffers from diabetes. She was angry at Gard, R-Peshtigo, because the Assembly passed a bill that bans therapeutic cloning,...

Baathists, Islamic radicals, and foreign fighters in Iraq have adjusted their sights in their efforts to torpedo the establishment of a democratic government in that country, a senior U.S. military officer said here today. Since terrorists in Iraq have had scant success against U.S. and coalition troops, they're now focusing attacks on newly trained Iraqi security forces and other targets, U.S. Army Gen. John Abizaid told Senate Armed Services Committee members. There are now, he said, about 200,000 Iraqi security forces. Abizaid is commander of U.S. Central Command. In addition to attacks on Iraqi police stations, the March 2 bombings...