Critics
say such an agency would be an uncontrolled nightmare, operating in secrecy
and outside of the traditional safeguards against government power needed
to protect American freedoms.... Full
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ID
cards 'to be compulsory in six years'
The
first identity cards seen in Britain since the Second World War are to start
replacing passports from March 2007 as the Government speeds up controversial
plans to issue everyone with a method of proving who they are.... Full
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TV
pictures on Saturday showed Iraqi insurgents holding a foreigner, apparently
American, prisoner in a car after fighting outside Baghdad the day before,
the latest in a rash of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq during this week's
violence....
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