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Pentagon Is Expected to Close Intelligence Unit
Washington – The Pentagon is expected to shut a controversial intelligence office that has drawn fire from lawmakers and civil liberties groups who charge that it was part of an effort by the Defense
Read More »FBI looks at DNA technique
A DNA police technique used to hunt down a rapist is being lauded in the United States as an example of pioneering detective work. Avon and Somerset Police’s first success using familial DNA searches
Read More ȣ26.5m star delighted to be at Liverpool
Liverpools £26.5 million striker Fernando Torres is delighted that the Anfield faithful have created a song just for him. “It is fantastic,” he told liverpoolfc.tv. “For me, Stevie Gerrard is the best player, he
Read More »Bush and NATO
AP reports that “President Bush on Wednesday [in Bucharest, Romania] renewed urgent calls for NATO to start the admission process for Ukraine and Georgia despite a split among alliance members and fierce Russian objections.”
Read More »Official: Mugabe loses control of parliament
Jenny Booth, and Jan Raath in Harare Zimbabwe’s opposition party today declared its leader Morgan Tsvangirai the rightful winner of the presidential election as official results showed Robert Mugabe’s party had lost control of
Read More »Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers.” Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs
Read More »Election Madness
Howard Zinn There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held—security guard,
Read More »’03 U.S. Memo Approved Torture
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2003 gave military interrogators broad authority to use extreme methods in questioning detainees and argued that wartime powers largely exempted interrogators from laws banning harsh treatment, according to
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