A US citizen who allegedly orchestrated the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists near Baghdad last year was sentenced to death in an Iraqi court Thursday, prompting his lawyers to ask a federal judge in Washington to block the U.S. military from transferring him to the Iraqi government.
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Jobless man asks judge for jail time
A US citizen who couldn’t find steady work came up with a plan to make it through the next few years until he could collect Social Security: He robbed a bank, then handed the money to a guard and waited for police.
Olbermann: “Why does habeas corpus hate America”
Last week the US government approved a law that will get rid of the habeas corpus and provides president Bush with the necessary tools to keep torturing prisoners. Keith Olbermann just can’t let this news be covered up.
Het zal uw kind maar zijn
Only in America… Maribel Cuevas lives in a poor district of Fresno, in central California, with her Spanish-speaking family. The girl, who speaks little English, has admitted throwing a stone at a group of boys she says were pestering her with water balloons as she walked down the street. An ambulance was called, but arrived …
Het Vlaams Belang: nieuw logo met extreem-rechtse oorsprong
Tijdens het aanvankelijk interessante maar uiteindelijk oersaaie gastcollege van Wim Vanderkerckhove moest ik denken aan een blogartikel dat ik vorige week onder ogen kreeg. Een stuk waarvan je weet: dit gaat ergens heen. De tekst en research waren van de hand van Marc Spruyt, de enige echte blokwatcher, de man die zich met een bijna wetenschappelijke precisie toelegt …
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