Police charged with murdering duo on bridge after Katrina Seven police officers have been charged with murder and attempted murder for a shooting on a New Orleans bridge six days after Hurricane Katrina that killed two people and wounded four others.
The incident on the Danziger Bridge in the eastern part of the city on September 4, 2005, has come to represent the lawlessness that descended on the city in the aftermath of the storm.
At the time New Orleans sweltered under a blistering heat, corpses littered the streets an... (more)
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Big Surprise: Cheney Eulogizes Ford for Pardoning Nixon I wasn’t going to comment on the passing of Gerald Ford, probably the most forgettable president of recent times. But then Dick Cheney had to open his mouth and praise Ford for pardoning Nixon.
“It was this man, Gerald R. Ford, who led our republic safely though a crisis that could have turned to catastrophe,” said Cheney, speaking in the Capitol Rotunda where Ford’s body is on display. “Gerald Ford was almost alone in understanding that there ... (more)
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Saddam's Death Leaves Unanswered QuestionsSAN FRANCISCO, California (IPS) – Iraqi-Americans reacted with sadness to the execution of Saddam Hussein Saturday, calling the former Iraqi president's death by hanging early this morning Baghdad time a missed opportunity for justice.
An Iraqi tribunal set up by the U.S. government had convicted Hussein of murder in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from the Iraqi town of Dujail, where assassins had tried to kill Hussein in 1982.
The crime, while severe, is ... (more)
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Saddam and the cellphonesClearly, the location of Saddam Hussein's execution was one of the most secure settings for an execution ever constructed. So, why are we finding on the move about this planet a bunch of viral, unrestricted and uncensored videos of what is probably the most controversial execution ever carried out?
Newsweek provided an interesting interview with Ali Al Massedy, the "official videographer" tasked with producing the official record of the execution. He usually does this job for ... (more)
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Amnesty International deplores Saddam's execution London- Human rights organization Amnesty International said Sunday in London that it "deplores" the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. ""We oppose the death penalty in all cases as a violation of the right to life and the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, but it is especially abhorrent when this most extreme penalty is imposed after an unfair trial," Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa programme, said in a statement.<... (more)
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How Washington and London helped to create the monster they went to war to destroyWhen they hanged him, he was America's vanquished foe, likened to Hitler and Stalin for the murderous evil of his ways. What is forgotten is that once, for more than a decade, Saddam Hussein was staunchly supported by the US.
Indeed, it was Washington that supplied him with many of the weapons of mass destruction the dictator used against his foes - weapons that one day would serve as a pretext for the US-led invasion that toppled him.
The dealings between the US an... (more)
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He takes his secrets to the grave. Our complicity dies with himWe've shut him up. The moment Saddam's hooded executioner pulled the lever of the trapdoor in Baghdad yesterday morning, Washington's secrets were safe. The shameless, outrageous, covert military support which the United States - and Britain - gave to Saddam for more than a decade remains the one terrible story which our presidents and prime ministers do not want the world to remember. And now Saddam, who knew the full extent of that Western support - given to him while he was perpetrating some ... (more)
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The Death Of Cash MONEY talks - and in the very near future it will be talking through your mobile phone.
Fumbling for coins in your pocket will be a thing of the past as the latest technology lets you load up your phone with credit and pay by simply pointing it at the till.
It's further proof that new technology is killing off hard cash.
In the coming year, even the smallest purchases will be paid for electronically after credit card giants Visa and Barclaycard struc... (more)
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Texas Toll Road Mailing Bills for 25 CentsA Texas toll road authority is spending 39 cents in postage to deliver bills to motorists asking for just 25 cents. Those who drove a portion of State Highway 121 in Denton County this month are receiving tiny bills for taking the road just once. Because the road has no toll booths, cars that use the road without a toll payment transponder are photographed and a bill issued to the registered owner. The tolling authority imposes a hefty penalty of 21 times the original cost ($5.25) if the vehicle... (more)
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CNN, US media disregard condemnation of Saddam execution CNN.com's homepage exclaimed "DEATH OF A DICTATOR" in an increased 32 point font on Saturday (12/30/06) after Saddam Hussein was hanged. The accompanying article did not contain any condemnation from world leaders or legal experts, many of whom believed that Saddam's trial was flawed.
Islam Online, however, quoted EU President Erkki Tuomioja, who said the execution could "prove to be divisive for the future of Iraq especially since there has been serious criticism of the way the ... (more)
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Localities Operate Intelligence Centers To Pool Terror Data Frustrated by poor federal cooperation, U.S. states and cities are building their own network of intelligence centers led by police to help detect and disrupt terrorist plots.
The new "fusion centers" are now operating in 37 states, including Virginia and Maryland, and another covers the Washington area, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The centers, which have received $380 million in federal support since the 2001 terrorist attacks, pool and analyze information ... (more)
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Red Light Camera System Raises Red Flag Cameras may soon make it easier for police to catch drivers running red lights. The city is signing a contract with Redflex Traffic Systems, of Arizona, to install the technology. But, as "Big Brother" snaps shots of drivers... some question if the cameras violate basic rights under the law.
You'll soon think twice about running a red light in Sioux City. Cameras will snap shots of cars going through red lights. The images will then be sent to the police department, where an offi... (more)
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Bush "outpolled by Lucifer" Apparently, when Chavez called him El Diablo - he meant it as a compliment.
SCARBOROUGH: Now[,] you don't have to have a [doctorate] in Political Science to realize it's never a good sign when you're outpolled by Lucifer
Watch it: WMP | MOV ... (more)
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After a sinister year, it's down to us to protect our freedoms An article in the New Scientist has reported that a rhesus monkey named Murph and a bottlenose dolphin called Natua, which lives in a harbour in Florida, have both exhibited a fascinating ability when doing reward-based tests. As well as being able to understand when they answered right or wrong, they learned to signal when they didn't know something and so avoid the disappointment of being wrong. Like Mastermind contestants, they elected to 'pass'.
Knowing what you don't know is... (more)
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Hillary falls to earth in poll race THE first vote is still more than a year away, but the campaign to replace President George W Bush in the White House is already throwing up surprises.
Unfortunately for Senator Hillary Clinton, long the front-runner in the Democratic drive to retake the presidency, most of them are coming at her expense.
A brace of Christmas opinion polls has left Clinton with a political hangover after a year that had appeared to cement her status as the Democrats’ best-org... (more)
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Iran terms Saddam's execution as victory for Iraqi people Tehran- Iran on Saturday termed the execution of Saddam Hussein as a "victory for the Iraqi people", state news agency IRNA reported.
"The execution of Saddam Hussein was a victory for the Iraqi people and no other country should take credit for that," Deputy Foreign Minister Hamid-Reza told IRNA in a first reaction by Tehran to the execution.
Assefi however criticised the swift execution and speculated that the United States preferred to avoid disclosure of more d... (more)
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Safety project focuses on Isle eyes GALVESTON — Technology developed to keep track of prisoners by scanning their irises became available Thursday to identify missing children or elderly people afflicted with Alzheimer's disease in Galveston County.
The Galveston County Sheriff's Department is the first sheriff's department in Texas and the 47th nationwide to join the Children's Identification Database, or CHILD Project.
The addition of Galveston County is part of an effort to image the irises ... (more)
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General says Prime Minister puts soldiers' lives 'unnecessarily at risk' Tony Blair is today accused of "disgraceful hand-washing" in Iraq by a former British Army chief, the latest attack on the Government by an increasingly outspoken military.
General Sir Michael Rose, the former commander of British troops in Bosnia, accuses the Prime Minister of putting British soldiers at "considerable and quite unnecessary risk" in Iraq, in an article for today's Independent on Sunday.
His remarks follow those of the ... (more)
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Litvinenko murder may be linked to mystery Russian poisoningsPROSECUTORS in Moscow are investigating the possibility that the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London last month is linked to two unsolved poisonings involving prominent Russian businessmen.
Both men were embroiled in the multi-billion-pound battle over Yukos, the Russian oil company, before its assets were taken back into state control by the Kremlin.
One is Roman Tsepov — a former bodyguard to President Vladimir Putin — who is reported to have inte... (more)
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Flashback: Saddam Key in Early CIA PlotU.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years, according to former U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials.
United Press International has interviewed almost a dozen former U.S. diplomats, British scholars and former U.S. intelligence officials to piece together the f... (more)
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Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Donald RumsfeldSaddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's reach back into history and extract these facts:
* On Dec. 20, 1983, the Washington Post reported that Rumsfeld "visited Iraq in what U.S. officials said was an attempt to bolster the already improving U.S. relations with that country."
* Two days later, the New York Times cited a "senior American official" who "said that the... (more)
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A dictator created then destroyed by AmericaSaddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis while spraying chemical weapons over his enemies? Our masters will tell us in a few hours that it is a "great day" for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed - by the Ir... (more)
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Saddam was Right and Bush was WrongThink about it. It was the Bush administration and not Saddam that turned out to be lying about WMDs. As we all know now, there weren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Amazingly enough, it was Saddam who was telling the truth from the very beginning. Bush was the one who lied to the whole world.
You may remember that in 2002, the UN Security Council ordered Iraq to put together a report detailing the entirety of its biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons programs. ... (more)
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