Private First Class Lynndie England will be court-martialled in January on charges arising from the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, the U.S. Army announced Monday.
A motions hearing is scheduled for Dec. 1-3, with the trial scheduled for Jan. 17-28, according to Lieutenant-General John Vines, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort [...]
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Just Call Her ‘Patsy’: Lynndie England could receive up to 38 years in jail
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OPEC is powerless to stop the rise in oil prices at the moment although it has about 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of spare capacity to add to supplies, president Purnomo Yusgiantoro said on Tuesday. As U.S. crude rose to a record $50.17 a barrel on Tuesday, Purnomo said he had not yet had [...]
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He accused Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, a Republican, of trying to get the name of independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader included on the state ballot, knowing he might divert Democrat votes.
He also said: “A fumbling attempt has been made recently to disqualify 22,000 African Americans (likely Democrats), but only 61 Hispanics (likely Republicans), [...]
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efense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday raised the possibility that Iraq (news - web sites) could conduct only limited elections in January, excluding places where violence was considered too severe for people to go to polls.
“Let’s say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country. [...]
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From the Bushonomics File: Durables Orders in U.S. Fall 0.5 Percent
Posted by JCMach1 Published in UncategorizedThe Commerce Department reported Friday that orders for durable goods
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Fear of Flying: …Nerves Ended W’s National Guard Service in Texas
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Janet Linke has been thinking about George W. Bush a lot lately. Thirty-two years ago, her late husband Jan Peter Linke served briefly in the Texas Air National Guard’s 111th [...]
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President Bush (news - web sites) might have been able to say it was simply a slip of the tongue when he confused two terrorists in a campaign speech Monday in New Hampshire. Trouble is, he’s made the same misstatement at least 10 times before.
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Gonaives: Bloated corpses filled morgues as Haitians faced yet another tragedy in a year marked by revolts, military interventions and deadly floods. At least 622 people were killed by Tropical Storm Jeanne, and officials expect to find many more bodies.
The corpses of two children lay on a sidewalk Monday in Gonaives, where one-third [...]
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Democrat Barack Obama is poised to beat out-of-state Republican candidate Alan Keyes for Illinois’ open U.S. Senate seat by a virtually unheard-of 3-to-1 ratio, a poll for the Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV (Channel 4) has found.
The poll results suggest that Keyes’ problems go much deeper than just the “carpetbagger” issue.
The poll of 800 likely voters puts [...]
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“It’s that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions,” the aging American journalist told the British television audience.
In June 2002, Dan Rather looked old, defeated, making a confession he dare not speak on American TV about the deadly censorship — and self-censorship — which had seized US newsrooms. [...]
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