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| Ex-Chicago cop gets 18 months for extorting payoffs
(Chicago Tribune) posted 11/02/2012 ... months in federal prison for using his police muscle to extort protection payoffs from heroin and crack dealers in the Ida B. Wells public housing complex. Kallatt M ... The Atlantic: "Afghanistan Is Your Fault" (InformationLiberation) posted 08/17/2021 ... from NeverTrumper Tom Nichols blaming the American people for the failure of the war in Afghanistan. ... The Big Question: Why are British troops back in Afghanistan five years after the war? (The Independent) posted 06/13/2006 ... rise to the Taliban. To complicate matters Afghanistan's only significant export is heroin. This illicit $2.7bn (£1.46bn) industry warps the entire economy, fu ... NYT ad: Iran war to boost Bush approval (Raw Story) posted 04/01/2006 ... indicating boosts to the President's job approval rating at the times of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (although it places the Afghanistan invasion at his highest point o ... Suspect Killed, Four SWAT Officers Wounded in Indianapolis Drug Raid Shoot-Out (StoptheDrugWar.org) posted 03/10/2014 ... had been released from the hospital by early Thursday. Police said they seized heroin, 13 guns, and $120,000 in cash inside the house. Five people inside the house w ... NATO used Afghan children to detect land-mines: ex-German soldier (IRNA) posted 01/14/2008 ... He alleged that German soldiers had operated outside the mandated area of ISAF in Afghanistan in 2002. Speaking at a routine government press briefing in Berlin ... Harper's office denies Canadians captured (CBC News) posted 06/07/2006 All Canadian soldiers stationed in Afghanistan are accounted for despite an Al-Jazeera report that an unknown number of soldiers had been captured by Taliban forces, the Prime ... Surprise: The Drug War Isn't About Drugs (Kevin Carson) posted 11/07/2014 ... to poppy cultivation in its territory. When the Taliban was overthrown, poppy and heroin cultivation resumed normal levels. Putting the US in charge of a “war on dr ... Afghan peasants bear the brunt of curbs on opium (Pak Tribune) posted 05/11/2006 ... to make ends meet,' says Fazel Rahman, a trader in the Argu drugs bazaar where opium and heroin are bought and sold. A recent report commissioned by the British governmen ... This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories (StoptheDrugWar.org) posted 03/26/2015 A DC FBI agent's heroin habit gets the best of him, a sticky-fingered Utah narc is in trouble, so are four Memphis jail guards, and crooked cops in San Francisco and Houston h ... Bush says violence in Iraq not civil war (Xinhua) posted 11/29/2006 ... interest that we help this government succeed.' Referring to the situation in Afghanistan, the U.S. president urged NATO countries to accept difficult assignment ... Feds Spent $3.6 Million to Study Drug-Smoking, Menstruating Monkeys (CNS News) posted 06/09/2011 ... involves getting monkeys to smoke and drink drugs such as PCP, methamphetamine (METH), heroin, and cocaine and then studying their behavior, including during different ph ... This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories (StoptheDrugWar.org) posted 11/06/2014 ... that someone had broken into his patrol/K-9 vehicle and stolen the drugs, which included heroin, cocaine, and meth. An internal investigation ensued, and Macchio went mis ... Woman charged $1,122 for forcible body cavity search ordered by police (InformationLiberation) posted 09/07/2011 ... information from a reliable source' that the woman was concealing up to an ounce of heroin, leading to the search warrant from Magistrate Court. The woman, who has no cri ... Army to Court Martial ‘Birther’ Officer (NBC News) posted 04/14/2010 ... that the U.S. Army will court martial a lieutenant colonel who refuses to deploy to Afghanistan because he considers orders from President Obama to be “illegal.&r ... UK backs Afghan troop expansion (BBC) posted 10/01/2005 Nato troops should be sent to volatile south Afghanistan to boost security and counter the drugs trade, Defence Minister John Reid has said. Mr Reid, who is visiting Afgh ... This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories (StopTheDrugWar.org) posted 07/16/2015 The beat goes on. Cops stealing weed in Texas, heroin in DC, and big sums of cash in Virginia, jail guards dealing smack, and more. Let's get to it: In Sullivan City, T ... If we policed the U.S. the way we do Afghanistan... [Comic] (Jen Sorensen) posted 12/27/2012 ... |
