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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President Clinton – The United States is ‘in a lot of trouble’
The nation has been “jammed into an ideological corner” by conservative Republicans and is primed for a power shift in the November elections, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday. “This is an election unlike any other I have ever participated in,” Clinton told Democratic supporters at a fundraiser in Las Vegas.
The 10 stories the US mainstream news media ignored
The 10 stories the US mainstream news media ignored. The juiciest one of all: Halliburton sold key nuclear-reactor components to an Iranian company as late as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as …
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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.
North Korea says it will detonate an H-bomb
A spokesman for Kim Jong-il said North Korea said in a statement to the US that it would test a hydrogen bomb to prove that they are capable.
New York City: Where pilots fly uncontrolled
There were angry calls yesterday for tighter restrictions on flights around Manhattan, after a baseball star ’s aircraft crashed into a luxury high-rise apartment building on the Upper East Side of New York.