U.S. human rights groups reacted angrily to the Justice Department’s announcement Monday that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on Lower Manhattan and the Pentagon will be tried before a military commission at the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba.The groups, which described the move as the latest in a series of reversals by the …
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Vlahos on Vietnam, the Kill Team and the war we don’t see
Listen to Rep. Ron Paul deliver this address here. Last week I was both surprised and pleased when the Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions requiring the Federal Reserve Bank to comply with requests for information made by Bloomberg under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Bloomberg simply wanted to know who received loans from …
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At least 18 Iraqis were killed and 15 more were wounded in a number of attacks that focused on Baghdad and nearby cities. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a non-hostile incident as well. Meanwhile, Iran shelled parts of Iraqi Kurdistan but no casualties were reported there.
News of a rift in the Libyan rebel ranks, as reported in the Washington Post, underscores much about what is wrong with US/NATO intervention in Libya: “When asked who was commanding the army, one career soldier, Ramzi Ali Mohammad, 31, said, ‘Khalifa Haftar.’ “’No, no,’ said another, Abdel Salam Mohammad Ali, 52, a corporal who …
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At least four Iraqis were killed and 28 more were wounded in the latest violence. Two U.S. soldiers were killed as well, by indirect fire (mortar or rocket attack) in an unreported location yesterday. A third U.S. soldier was wounded in a blast in Najaf.
At least 11 Iraqis and one Egyptian were killed in the latest attacks. Another 14 Iraqis were wounded.
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At least five Iraqis were killed and nine were wounded
in new attacks, while another 50 were injured during demonstrations in
Iraqi Kurdistan.
About 50
people were injured during protests in Suleimaniya. A large number
of the injured belonged to security forces. Demonstrations calling for reform
within the Kurdish Autonomous government have occurred there for about six
weeks.
A suicide
bomber killed
three soldiers and wounded seven others, including three civilians, in Falluja.
In Mosul, a hand grenade attack left two
wounded. A man
was shot to death.
Kurdish security forces have been accused
of targeting members of an opposition party during clashes in Kalar.
In Baghdad, demonstration gathered
in Tahrir Square.
A bomb targeted a U.S. patrol near Amara but left no
casualties.
