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Sen. John Kerry, right, waves to supporters with U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-MO, during an
event where Kerry received an endorsement from labor unions in Milwaukee, Wise., Tuesday.
Kerry wins close race
in Wisconsin primary
BY RON FOURNIER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
flfc John Kerry squeezed out vic
tory in Wisconsin, barely hold
ing off hard-charging rival John
Edwards who established himself
as the front-runner's sole rival as
the Democratic presidential race
thunders toward a 10-state show
down March 2.
Howard Dean trailed far be
hind, winless in 17 contests, his
candidacy doomed less than a
month after he stood atop the
Democratic field. The fallen
front-runner retreated to
Vermont, where he will consider
several options, including en
dorsing one of his rivals, advis
ers said.
Close race or not, Kerry said,
“A win is a win."
Edwards, his dream of a head
• to-head matchup now a reality,
declared, “Well go full-throttle to
the next group of states."
He pledged to campaign in
each of the 10 states holding pri
maries or caucuses March 2, in
cluding California, New York
and Ohio, and awarding 1,151
delegates, more than half the to
tal needed to claim the nomina
tion.
The North Carolina lawmak
er's breakout was fueled by the
highest Republican turnout of
the primary season and voters
who made their decision in the
last week. His deepest support
was in the GOP suburbs of
Milwaukee.
“That's been happening in oth
er primaries, too," Edwards told
The Associated Press in an inter
view. “Republicans who would
consider voting Democratic and
independents are the people we
have to win over to win the gen
eral election. That's why I'm the
best candidate to take on George
Bush."
Kerry held a wide lead in pre
election polls, but the surveys did
not fully reflect voter sentiments
after a statewide debate Sunday,
Edwards' criticism of Kerry's
free-trade policies and two news
paper endorsements for Edwards.
Nor did the polls take into ac
count llth-hour attacks on Kerry
from President Bush's re-election
team.
“We underwent a lot of
Republican attacks the last week.
Notwithstanding those attacks,
we showed we can fight back,"
Kerry told the AP.
“We’re winning in every state
across the country," he said.
“We're going to win the nomina
tion."
Kerry won 15 of the 17 elec
tions to date — seven by nearly
half the vote — on the East and
West coasts, in the Midwest, the
Great Plains and the Southwest.
He remains the undisputed front
runner, flush with money and
momentum.
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Cooperation between U.S.,
Arab governments has aided
war on terror, FBI head says
BY CURT ANDERSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Terrorist at
tacks in Arab and Muslim coun
tries have led those governments
to vastly improve their coopera
tion with U.S. authorities in the
war on terror, particularly in cut
ting off financing, FBI Director
Robert Mueller said Tuesday.
Bombings tied to al-Qaida or its
sympathizers in Saudi Arabia,
Morocco, Indonesia, Turkey and
elsewhere have proven to govern
ments around the world that ter
rorism is not merely a U.S. prob
lem, Mueller told foreign journal
ists.
“I think countries around the
world recognize that numbers of
women and children were killed
in those senseless acts and don't
want to see that happen any
where in the world," Mueller
said.
Although he declined to name
specific countries, Mueller said
Arab and Muslim countries have
made significant strides in help
ing the United States identify and
shut down sources of financing for
al-Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah and
other groups.
“You take the money away
from terrorists, they cannot oper
ate," Mueller said during an ap
pearance at the State Departments
Foreign Press Center. “We are see
ing substantial increased assis
tance in addressing the financing
of terrorism throughout the
Middle East."
FBI officials have cited several
examples of this cooperation in re
cent months, including:
— Establishment of a joint U.S.
Saudi task force focused oh inves
tigating and eliminating sources
of terror financing in Saudi Arabia
and elsewhere around the world.
—Joint investigations of terror
financing networks with local of
ficials in Indonesia, Malaysia,
Singapore, United Arab Emirates,
Pakistan, Afghanistan and
Indonesia.
— Action taken by both the
United States and Saudi Arabia to
block accounts in Bosnia and
Somalia of the Al-Haramain
Islamic Foundation and Wa'el
Hamza Julaidan, described by the
FBI as an associate of Osama bin
Laden who provided financial sup
port to al-Qaida.
—Four occasions in which the
FBI got information from un
named foreign governments about
financing of a pending terror at
tack and could provide that gov
ernment with tracking informa
tion leading to the arrests of sus
pected terrorists.
Mueller said that despite the in
ternational gains made against al
Qaida and removal of its base in
Afghanistan, the group remains a
dangerous network with affiliates
or sympathizers in many parts of
the world. And it remains dedi
cated to attacking Americans at
home and abroad, he said.
“There are groups in many
countries—cells—who follow the
preachings of al-Qaida and (bin
Laden)," Mueller said. “Yes, it is
more difficult for them to operate,
but there are a number of them
who do operate."
“They are a fragmented opera
tion around the world about which
all of us must be concerned," he
added.
Mueller also sought to assure
Arabs and Muslims that the war
on terror was not aimed at them
for ethnic or religious reasons. He
said that “99.9 percent” of Arab
Americans and Muslim
Americans are patriotic and op
pose terrorists, and that the FBI is
committed to investigating in
stances of hate crime or civil
rights violations targeting them.
Commission promises $2.3 billion
for new voting-booth improvements
BY H. JOSEF HEBERT
THE ASSOCIATED DRESS
WASHINGTON - States can ex
pect by mid-May to get a long
awaited $2.3 billion in federal help
to buy new voting-booth equip
ment and make other election im
provements, the head of an elec
toral reform commission
promised.
Millions of voters again will be
using the much-maligned punch
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cards in this fall’s presidential bal
loting. Many of the improvements,
including plans for statewide com
puterized voter registration data,
aren’t expected to be in place be
fore 2006.
Members of the new Election
Assistance Commission assured
state officials at a conference
Monday that they will expedite the
distribution of $2.3 billion in fed
eral funds for election improve
ments. About $650 million already
has been provided.
DeForest B. Soaries, the com
mission's chairman, said the vari
ous state plans for using the mon
ey will soon be published in the
Federal Register with funds to be
disbursed 45 days after that.
In an interview, Soaries said it
is important that the states be giv
en “an absolute commitment from
the federal government” that the
funds will be provided by a certain
date.
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