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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 – Daily News – 5B Obama defends Gulf effort WASHINGTON (AP) — National anger rising, President Barack Obama is defending his efforts against the country’s worst environmental disaster and hoping his first Oval Office address Tuesday night will stoke confidence that he can see the job through until the gush- ing oil is gone and Gulf Coast lives are back to normal. ‘‘We’re going to fight back with everything that we’ve got,’’ Obama said in Pensacola, Fla., capping a two-day inspec- tion tour of the stricken region before flying back to Washing- ton for his evening address to the nation. Eight weeks to the day after an offshore oil rig leased by BP PLC exploded, killed 11 work- ers and sent tens of millions of gallons of crude flooding into the Gulf of Mexico, Obama’s high-stakes speech came during a week of constantly unfolding drama. Lightning even struck. A bolt hit the ship siphoning oil from the still-spewing undersea leak on — injuring no one but halting containment efforts for a few hours. Back on land, as long as the oil keeps flowing, no one seems happy with what anyone is doing to deal with it, from Obama on down. Gulf well leaking 1.47M to 2.52M gallons a day NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Scientists provided a new esti- mate for the amount of oil gush- ing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be worse than previously thought. A government panel of scien- tists said that the ruptured well is leaking between 1.47 million and 2.52 million gallons a day of oil. That is an increase over previous estimates that put the maximum size of the spill at 2.1 million gallons per day. ‘‘This estimate brings togeth- WORLD BRIEFING cane aftermath. Faulkner is a devout, good- humored Christian who has trav- eled widely in that part of the world. er several scientific methodolo- gies and the latest information from the sea floor, and repre- sents a significant step forward in our effort to put a number on the oil that is escaping from BP’s well,’’ Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a statement. The latest numbers reflect an increase in the flow that scien- tists believe happened after undersea robots earlier this month cut off a kinked pipe near the sea floor that was believed to be restricting the flow of oil, just as a bend in a garden hose reduces water flow. BP officials has estimated that cutting the kinked pipe likely increased the flow by up 20 percent. The pipe was removed so BP could install a containment cap that is trapping leaking oil and drawing it a ship waiting on the ocean surface. Colo. man in Pakistan on solo mission to hunt down bin Laden DENVER (AP) — An Ameri- can man has been detained in the mountains of Pakistan after Pak- istani authorities found him carry- ing a sword, pistol and night- vision goggles on a Rambo-style solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden. Friends and family say con- struction worker Gary Brooks The 51-year-old Faulkner, who has a lengthy arrest record and served time in a Colorado prison, arrived June 3 in the town of Bum- burate and stayed in a hotel there. He was assigned a police guard, as is common for foreigners visiting remote parts of Pakistan. When he checked out without informing police, officers began looking for him, according to the top police officer in the Chitral region, Mumtaz Ahmad Khan. Faulkner was found late Sunday in a forest. ‘‘We initially laughed when he told us that he wanted to kill Osama bin Laden,’’ Khan said. But when officers seized the weapons and night-vision equip- ment, ‘‘our suspicion grew.’’ He said the American was trying to cross into the nearby Afghan region of Nuristan. Dissatisfied with Obama on spill WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have become just as dissatisfied with President Barack Obama’s work on the Gulf oil spill as they were with his predeces- sor’s handling of Hurricane Katri- na, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released Tuesday. Even so, the catastrophe appears not to have taken a toll on how Americans view the presi- dent overall. Obama’s approval rating remained steady in the poll and he is more popular than Pres- ident George W. Bush was two months after the hurricane. Bush alone took the hit in pub- lic perceptions. In the spill, much anger is steered at BP, and the poll suggests Americans do not feel quite the sense of shame that afflicted them in the 2005 hurri- Still, Obama and his adminis- tration have struggled to contain the environmental disaster in the Gulf and now, it seems, to con- vince people that the government is acting effectively. Most Americans are angry about the government’s slow response, the poll finds, with 54 percent saying they had strong feelings about the bureaucracy’s reaction. Many doubt that Wash- ington could really help them if they were a disaster victim. Dems criticize Iowa lawmaker WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on Tuesday denounced an Iowa Republican congressman who says President Barack Obama favors blacks over whites, and a GOP candidate from Colorado canceled a fundraiser the Iowan was to keynote. Rep. Steve King, known for sometimes incendiary remarks about immigration, Abu Ghraib and other issues, criticized Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, who also is black, in an interview Monday on G. Gordon Liddy’s nationally syndicated radio talk show. ‘‘I’m offended by Eric Holder and the president also, their pos- ture,’’ said King, 61. ‘‘It looks like Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to race.’’ King continued: ‘‘The presi- dent has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race on the side that favors the black per- son in the case of professor Gates and officer Crowley.’’ He was alluding to last year’s incident in which Obama com- mented on a white police officer’s arrest of a black professor from Harvard University. No citizenship for babies born in US to illegals PHOENIX (AP) — Embold- ened by passage of the nation’s toughest law against illegal immigration, the Arizona politician who sponsored the measure now wants to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to undocu- mented parents. Legal scholars laugh out loud at Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce’s proposal and warn that it would be blatantly unconstitutional, since the 14th Amendment guarantees citizen- ship to anyone born in the U.S. But Pearce brushes aside such concerns. And given the charged political atmosphere in Arizona, and public anger over what many regard as a failure by the federal government to secure the border, some politi- cians think the idea has a chance of passage. ‘‘I think the time is right,’’ said state Rep. 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