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Cardinal visits Nazi camp but no apology
ZAGREB – The head of Croatia’s Catholic Church paid his first visit to the site of a second World War concentration camp yesterday and condemned crimes committed there by Croatia’s Nazi-allied Ustasha regime.
But Cardinal Josip Bozanic, the highest-ranking Catholic official to come to Jasenovac, a former Nazi camp some 100 miles (160km) east of Zagreb, offered no apologies.
“We did not come here to debate or discuss or, as some still demand, to offer apologies, justifications or political stands,” he said.
An estimated 80,000 Serbs, Jews, gypsies and anti-fascist Croats died at the hands of the Ustasha from 1941 to 1945. Local historians have criticised many in the Catholic Church for siding with the Nazi regime during the war. – (Reuters)
Ex-housekeeper arrested in UK
LONDON – The former housekeeper of UK attorney general Patricia Scotland has been arrested by border agency officials, police said yesterday.
Earlier this week, Baroness Scotland was fined £5,000 (€5,480) after it was found that she had unknowingly employed illegal immigrant Loloahi Tapui (27). She had been guilty of breaching employment laws by failing to take photocopies of documents the Tongan immigrant provided as proof of her right to work in Britain. – (Reuters)
US to increase aid to Pakistan
WASHINGTON – The US Senate yesterday approved compromise legislation to triple non-military aid to Pakistan to about $1.5 billion (€1.02 billion) a year for each of the next five years as part of a plan to fight extremism with economic development. – (Reuters)
Conspiracy charge for terror suspect
NEW YORK – Terror suspect Najibullah Zazi was yesterday charged with conspiring to detonate bombs in the US. Zazi faced a court in Denver accused of lying to terrorism investigators. The new charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction was filed in New York. – (AP)