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Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - U.S. Marines escorted foreigners trying to flee Haiti's capital Wednesday as looting broke out and opposition leaders urged a "timely and orderly" departure of beleaguered President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide loyalists built dozens of flaming barricades, blocking roads all over the city and some leading to the airport. One American abandoned his car at a roadblock and set off on foot for the airport, carrying his suitcase. Thugs were robbing people at the barricades. Washington - Libya on Wednesday contradicted its prime minister and confirmed that it was responsible for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 and killing 270 people. Referring to the prime minister's statement that Libya had not acknowledged responsibility in a letter to the United Nations, the Libyan news agency said "recent statements contradicting or casting doubt on these positions are inaccurate and regrettable." London - The British government wants to extend special powers allowing suspected foreign terrorists to be locked up without charges because it believes scrapping the law when it expires in November 2006 would put lives at risk. The government has been under pressure from human rights activists, religious leaders and lawyers to junk the detention provisions of its anti-terror act.
