Sunday Quickies

Some stories that caught our attention: Clinton Vows To Stay in Race To Convention A day after Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged the candidates to end the race by July 1, Clinton defied that call by declaring that she will take her campaign all the way to the Aug. 25-28 convention if necessary... RICH: HILLARY'S ST. PATRICK'S DAY MASSACRE; Bosnia fairy tale... Why did she keep repeating this whopper for nearly three months, well after it had been publicly debunked by journalists and eyewitnesses? Al Qaeda recruiting "western" fighters: CIA boss Al Qaeda is training fighters that "look western" and could easily cross U.S. borders without attracting attention, CIA Director Michael Hayden said on Sunday. Shia cleric orders fighters off streets Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered members of his militia to withdraw from the streets of Basra and other cities in Iraq after five days of fighting with the Iraqi armed forces. British army joins battle in Basra Artillery attack on Mahdi army position in the city was 'something we were always prepared to do'... Tibetan Protestors Attack Chinese Embassy A group of 200 Tibetan exiles and Buddhist monks tried to storm the Chinese Embassy visa office in Nepal's capital but police beat them back with bamboo batons. MI5 investigating Al-Qaeda attempt to infiltrate British labs, get killer viruses MI5 and anti-terrorist police are carrying out secret background checks on thousands of scientists amid fears that Al Qaeda is trying to infiltrate British research laboratories to obtain deadly viruses. Russia Wary of NATO Expansion: Ukraine and Georgia Want In Moscow and NATO have had uneasy relations in recent years. Now, though, the alliance is likely to delay its planned expansion to Russia's southern flank... OIL-MEXICO: Floundering in Deep Waters MEXICO CITY, Mar 28 (IPS) - Billions of barrels of crude are lying under the deep seabed in the Gulf of Mexico, an area divided between Cuba, the United States and Mexico. Violent weekend for CPS students A weekend of shootings in Chicago has claimed the lives of two teenagers. Another is injured.