Bensakhria had escaped a police roundup in Germany months earlier and Spanish police said he was an aide to bin Laden who had been sent from Afghanistan to attack U.S. interests in Europe.
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An aide to Meehan said 190 Democrats have signed the petition and predicted supporters would get about five more after the recess.
"Imus's bigoted remarks are indicative of the entrenched racism found throughout the corporate news and entertainment media in the United States, " said Viola Plummer, an aide to New York Councillor Charles Barron.
Police in New York pulled him off his Paris-bound flight and charged him with sexually assaulting a hotel chambermaid. (The charges were later dropped, and prosecutors said they doubted the maid's reliability.) An aide phoned Ms. Merkel at her central-Berlin home that Saturday and told her the news.
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He said he brainstormed for several hours and held three meetings with an aide, who volunteered to help create the design.
"You'd rather have a smooth transition than a bumpy one, " said Paul Begala, a former top aide to President Clinton and an analyst for CNN.
An aide said Mr Clegg could not take part at the times requested and it was later agreed he would appear on Friday morning to answer listeners' questions.
But an Issa aide said the two issues are completely different: The 2008 dispute involved officials who worked in the White House and claimed executive privilege, the aide said, while Issa is seeking information from an agency over which Congress has oversight.
Edwards arranged a conference call Saturday with more than 50 state coordinators and supporters from the Howard Dean campaign in about 12 states to discuss working together, an Edwards aide said.
Democratic front-runner Ruth Messinger said through an aide that she would have no comment on the article, and would instead continue to talk about education and unemployment.
Al-Asaad was traveling with an aide and a local activist, Barakat al-Haweish, both of whom were slightly injured, the activist said.
Earlier, an Edwards aide said the candidate was not getting the media attention he needed to get his message out and win delegates, especially with races coming up in 22 states Tuesday.
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