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The protester interrupted the Hurricane Katrina hearing when he stood up in the courtroom and held up a a piece of cloth with hand-lettered writing that read, "Probe the White House." He was escorted out of the courtroom.
Has the American reaction to the attacks in fact been a massive overreaction? Is the widespread belief that 9/11 plunged us into one of the deadliest struggles of our time simply wrong? If we did overreact, why did we do so? Does history provide any
Percy had expected to be back at home after an appearance at magistrates' court where she argued, on a point of principle, that she would not pay the fine and £150 costs. But she was handed a 7-day sentence and sent to jail in
Iraqi native Wesam al-Delaema, 33, arrived on a Dutch plane and is the first suspect to face criminal charges in a U.S. court for alleged terrorist involvement in the violent Iraqi insurgency, Justice Ministry spokesman Ivo Hommes said.
IRAQ'S Vice-President al-Mahdi noted, "Unlike the Americans, we don't have an exit strategy from Iraq." The same was true of Iraq's neighbours. This was why they were urging President Bush to talk to these countries and warning
US air raids in Somalia to flush out suspect Al-Qaeda operatives may be ineffective in fighting terrorism and risk making the country's Muslim population more radical, regional experts warn.
Officially, 23,000 troops have been wounded in combat in Iraq. But more than double that number have fallen ill or been injured in what the Pentagon considers "nonhostile" action, a way of counting that hides the war's full toll.
Travelli, who shuttled back and forth to the facility from Chicago for several years in the 1980s, didn't know the worst of it. When his mission bogged down, the Romanians not only held on to the highly enriched uranium, they secretly used it and
After violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by eavesdropping on Americans without warrants for 5 years, the administration somehow found a way to obey the law without sacrificing our safety.
Having made a mess of Iraq, continuing to refuse to play a constructive and even-handed role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and having gotten bored with democracy promotion, the Bush administration now appears to be fanning the flames of sectari
Israel probably violated the terms of its arms deals with Washington by using US-made cluster bombs in Lebanon last year, a US government report says. The state department looked into Israel's use of cluster bombs in civilian areas of southern
The Israeli air force has decided to buy smart munitions kits from Boeing for an estimated $100 million. Purchase was for the Joint Direct Attack Munition which converts conventional 2,000 pound bombs into satellite-guided, precision weapons.
The US isn't facing a two-front war, exactly – but as the Pentagon begins its new push in Iraq, the Bush administration simultaneously is increasing military and political pressure on Iran. The point is to counter Iranian meddling in Iraq, whi
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"...everyone is worried that the more robust US rules of engagement in taking on the Shia in Baghdad will have a knock-on effect on the Shia in the south," says Lord Garden. "That could make it more difficult for the British."
Before the elections, President Bush promised never to put US troops "in the crossfire" of Iraq's warring sectarian groups. Last week, he made clear that his new strategy would do just that.
Iraqi leaders studied the possibility of a Democratic takeover months before the vote. Concluding even the most staunchly antiwar Democrats would not abandon Iraq. It was President Clinton who funded the opposition movements now in power.
The case for adding troops in Iraq -- and keeping them there -- rests on one basic assumption: As bad as things are now, they would become catastrophic if the United States leaves.
In Iraq, at least 452 Iraqis were killed today and another 182 were injured in various attacks during the festival of Ashura. 3 more American service members were killed in separate incidents, and a U.S. helicopter was shot down, killing 2 more soldi
Google, Dell and Advanced Micro Devices are discovering that building new facilities in the USA can generate almost as much controversy as sending jobs overseas. Former state judge Robert Orr questions the perks used to woo Google. The company is get
Congress has spent more than $500 billion on specific appropriations for Iraq. This sum is not reflected in official budget and deficit figures. If every American taxpayer had to submit an extra five or ten thousand dollars to the IRS this April...
Devicescape has released its automatic WiFi connection utility for mobile devices. Automatically logs in devices -- even devices without browsers, such as VoIP phones -- at thousands of free and commercial WiFi hotspot locations, the company says.
Months ago, Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, blasted the Bush administration for its resort to a “cabal” led by Cheney. Now we are getting chapter and verse from the prosecution of another chief of st
Adobe Systems Inc. announced that it has released the full PDF (Portable Document Format) 1.7 specification to the Association for Information and Image Management, which in turn, will start working on making PDF an ISO standard.
After the skeletal remains of an 18,000-year-old, Hobbit-sized human were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, some scientists thought that the specimen must have been a pygmy or a microcephalic -- a human with an abnormally small s
The last refuge for Martian life, if it exists, might be deep below the planet’s surface and beyond the reach of any currently planned missions. After mapping cosmic radiation levels at various depths on Mars, any life within the first several yards
Abraham Lincoln may have suffered from a genetic disorder that literally shattered his nerves. Many of the president's descendants have a gene mutation that affects the part of the brain controlling movement and coordination,
A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a key terrorism charge, the only one carrying a potential life sentence, against alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla. A three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with federal p
The regulatioin of the personal habit of smoking, including new legislative moves in San Francisco to ban cigarettes in private homes, and its enforcement by an eager cadre of state snoops and snitches, represents nothing more than a move on behalf
The US "could be using its 2 air force bases in Bulgaria and one at Romania's Black Sea coast to launch an attack on Iran in April, " the Bulgarian news agency Novinite claimed. Commenting on the report, the Sunday Herald wrote
