For the Bush administration, committed to a "war on terror" and opposed to anyone "willing to harbour a terrorist or feed a terrorist", in the president's words, Mr Posada is an increasing irritation.

One solution was for him to leave the US for a country prepared to offer him a home. However, so far seven countries which have been approached - Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala - have all refused. Yesterday his lawyer in El Paso, Felipe Millan, said that situation remains unchanged.

He came to the predominantly African-American Waldo C. Falkener Elementary School to tout the supposed success of his No Child Left Behind Act. Some 45 people showed up to demonstrate against his policies of endless war, torture, neglect of Rita/Katrina victims, and dishonesty. One protester held a sign that said, "No child left a dime!" to highlight the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthy and gutting of social programs for working and poor people.

Afterwards, Bush was greeted by a group of protesters in Randleman, N.C., when he went to the Victory Junction Gang Camp, a camp for children with health care needs.

Then came the real-life nightmare on Elm Street, when Bush returned to Greensboro to attend a private Republican fundraiser in a wealthy enclave near Elm Street and Sunset Drive, where he raised over $900,000. People are so disgusted with Bush and his policies that even some people in the neighborhood joined the protest.

Some 130 people rallied, demanding Bush be jailed for his war crimes and subversion of constitutional rights. It was a lively protest with drummers keeping everyone's spirits and energy up. People chanted to the beat of the drums saying, "There's a killer in the White House, time to drive his ass out," "End the occupation," and "Bush is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s. This war is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s."

When protesters attempted to march into the neighborhood to demonstrate in front of the fundraiser, a line of cops formed. Progressive attorney Louis Pitts, after speaking with police, informed the crowd that their rights were being violated. Police claimed the area was a "secure area" but were allowing cars to drive in, and Bush supporters were visibly on the sidewalk ahead. Demonstrators held an impromptu street meeting to decide what to do next.

Before the discussion ended, police had closed off the entire street, but the rally continued as people marched around the busy intersection. There was a makeshift jail with Bush inside, a towering orange arrest warrant, a hula-hooper for peace, a coffin with "Roe v Wade" painted on the side, and a large pink banner saying "Impeach to support our troops." Several people were able to sneak around the block and protest at the fundraiser.

Almost all the protesters wore an orange ribbon and some dressed in orange to show their opposition to the recently passed Military Commissions Act of 2006, which legalizes torture. The act also strips away the right of habeas corpus to anyone Bush declares an enemy combatant, among many other unconstitutional aspects.

The protest was organized by Greensboro World Can't Wait with the support of Action Center For Justice and Char-Meck Code Pink. People from around North Carolina participated, including the cities of Charlotte, Reidsville, Kernersville, Burlington, Wilmington, Winston-Salem, and Chapel Hill.

The protest was covered by a couple of local news stations and Greensboro's News and Record. As usual, they underreported the number of people and ignored many of the most significant statements and details of this incredible display of opposition to the Bush administration.

Securities regulators had implicated Perle as early as November 2004, when they filed civil fraud charges against Conrad Black, Hollinger's former chairman and chief executive, alleging that Black engaged in undisclosed transactions that benefited him but hurt the newspaper publishing company.

Dennis Block, an attorney for Perle, said Monday that Perle was notified by the SEC early this month that he wouldn't face charges.

In a complaint filed in November 2004, the SEC had accused Black of authorizing a $2.5-million investment in TriReMe, a venture capital fund affiliated with Perle, without the approval of the board's audit committee.

John Nester, an SEC spokesman, declined to comment.

Hollinger International changed its name to Sun-Times Media Group Inc. in July. The company publishes the Chicago Sun-Times and other newspapers and Web sites in the Chicago area. A spokeswoman for the company also declined to comment.

However, workers, mostly forensic anthropologists for the medical examiner's office, will continue to wear masks. No additional human remains were found during in-depth searches Monday.

Many family members of victims are still demanding all World Trade Center construction be stopped so experts can conduct the search.

But New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg insisted that construction needs to continue to build for the future. "We're a hundred percent convinced that we have the expertise and we have experience of how to deal in the city, in building and in the infrastructure," he said.

John McArdle, the retired police lieutenant who oversaw the recovery of remains after the terror attacks, said he wanted to take more time at the site but was overruled.

"I knew that this was going to happen, and they really just wanted us out of there," McArdle said. "There was not a good exit strategy for some of these places, and if there was, it was poorly done."

The project finished months ahead of city officials' year long prediction, and cost about 750 million dollars, just a fraction of the initial multibillion-dollar estimate.

The mayor acknowledged the initial search may have been rushed, but argued that the crews did the best they could under enormous pressure.

He has had similar bouts of amnesia in the past, likely triggered by stress, once disappearing for nine months. When he went missing this time, on Sept. 6, he had been on his way to Canada to visit a friend who was dying of cancer, said his fiancee, Penny Hansen.

"I think that the stress, the sadness, the grief of facing a best friend dying was enough, and leaving me was enough to send him into an amnesia state," Hansen told KCNC-TV.

When Ingram found himself in Denver on Sept. 10, he didn't know who he was. He said he walked around for about six hours asking people for help, then ended up at a hospital, where police spokeswoman Virginia Quinones said Ingram was diagnosed with a type of amnesia known as dissociative fugue.

People with dissociative fugue typically appear fine but have temporarily lost their sense of identity, are confused and impulsively travel away from home. Experts say it is rare and typically linked to severe stress.

Ingram's identity came to light last weekend after he appeared on several news shows asking the public for help: "If anybody recognizes me, knows who I am, please let somebody know."

"Penny's brother called her right away and told her 'Did you watch this newscast?' and 'I think that's Jeff that they're showing on television,' "

said Marilyn Meehan, a spokeswoman for Hansen.

Hansen had filed a missing person report after Ingram failed to show up at her mother's home in Bellingham, Wash., on his way to Canada, but officials came up empty.

On Monday night, two Denver police detectives accompanied Ingram on a flight to Seattle, where he was reunited with his fiancee.

His mother, Doreen Tompkins of Slave Lake, Alta., was in tears as she talked about the struggle her son and the family still face.

"It's going to be very difficult again, but . . . I can do it," she told CTV news. "I did it before, I can do it again. I'll do it as many times as I have to just so I can have my son."

Ingram had experienced an episode of amnesia in 1995 when he disappeared during a trip to a grocery store. Nine months later, he was found in a Seattle hospital, according to Thurston County, Wash., officials. His mother said he never fully regained his memory.