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The parents claim ii held in Saudi Arabia is a ate attempt to keep to U.S. courts and in the la jailers who could abuser I, desig him for information. I awarc The family’s lawyerst jL un j t ) month’s Supreme Court J'uesda that alleged enemy com J j a tjona held at the U.S. navi Bty resi< at Guantanamo Bay, 10 t ie r so can take their claims:: 1^ the courts. Jctivity Ahmed Abu All wasarl 13 months ago in Saudii^ as part of an Americas terrorism investigatios U.S. government orders: arrest and has refused: when or if Abu Ali woi charged or released,td: ily alleged in a suit totr Wednesday in federalco, Washington. The family wants an Am-: judge to order Abu Alii™ to the United States, vrh* might face charges aspari ynnc alleged terrorism training jj. | p ni , Virginia. The suit namesA:i cuss J ;su ist By THI General John Ashcroft,$ecr| IO grapl DAVE MORRIS • THE BATTALION Former student William Rogers, Class of '02, CEO of HomeCom Inc. runs a bundle of wires through the stud framing of a house under con struction just south of Navasota. HomeCom Inc. specializes in struc tural wiring for home automation, where winng for a variety of devices, such as telephone, Internet, cable, TV, satellite, security systems and audio systems are run throughout a house from a central hub. of State Colin Powell and cites the Supreme rulings last month thatorm legal rights for citizens citizens detained in th terrorism. Car bomb explodes outside Iraqi police station, kills! By Hadi Awad THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAQOUBA, Iraq - A suicide car bomb tore through a downtown street Wednesday, killing 68 Iraqis and turning a bustling area of shops and fruit stalls into charred corpses, twisted metal and burning cars — the deadliest attack in the month since U.S. authorities handed sovereignty to an interim government. The late morning explosion wounded 56 Iraqis, overwhelming the hospital in Baqouba, a city 35 miles northeast of the capital. Every bed was filled, forcing many victims to sit on the floor amid pools of blood as frantic health workers treated them. One wounded man sit ting against the wall held his head in his hands and wept. People ran through the corridors searching for information on missing relatives. “These were all innocent Iraqis, there were no Americans. What was their guilt?” one man shouted at the bomb site, pounding his head in grief. Other men screamed epithets and denounced the attackers as terrorists. The blast, one of the deadliest single-bomb attacks since Saddam Hussein’s fall more than a year ago, came just three days before the country is to convene Polish Lt. Col. Artur Domanski, a national force spokesman, said he I information on whether the insurgeafini foreign a national conference that will choose an interim assembly — considered a crucial step toward estab lishing democracy. The explosion capped a violent day across Iraq, with US. and other coali tion forces fighting a series of gunbat- tles with insurgents. In one clash with militants thought to have crossed over from Iran, 35 insur- Attacks on the rise A car bomb killing at least 68 people in Baqouba Wednesday was one of the deadliest attacks this year following a trend of rising Insurgent violence. 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