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`Bloodied' anti-war protester gets in face of `criminal' RiceWASHINGTON–An anti-war protester waved blood-coloured hands in U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's face at a congressional hearing yesterday and shouted "war criminal!" before being pushed away and detained by police.

"The blood of millions of Iraqis is on your hands!" yelled protester Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz of the Code Pink organization.

Rice, an architect of U.S. President George W. Bush's Iraq policy, appeared unfazed by the incident, which occurred when she entered a House of Representatives meeting room to testify at a hearing on U.S. More>>

Thursday October 4, 2007 1:16 AM

By ANDREW TAYLOR

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate passed a huge $459 billion budget for the Pentagon Wednesday, after adding almost $4 billion to try to gain control over the U.S. border with Mexico.

The Pentagon spending bill, passed by voice vote, does not include President Bush's almost $190 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill does, however, award the Pentagon a 10 percent increase of $43 billion, much of which would be devoted to procuring new and expensive weapons systems.

Some $3 billion in emergency border security money was already included in a spending bill for the Homeland Security Department but was added to the Pentagon spending measure in a gambit by GOP leaders to save President Bush from an embarrassing override of his planned veto of the Homeland Security measure. More>>