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Review: New Movie Can't Top Real-Life Men Who Stare at Goats
Maybe the greatest conspiracy of all was turning The Men Who Stare at Goats into another middlebrow Hollywood action flick a ' complete with a saccharine ending.
"Two people were killed and a bystander was wounded when gunmen blew up a police officera s home in Abu Ghraib.
Senior Iraqi policeman killed by bomb outside his door
A senior Iraqi police officer was killed on Wednesday by a bomb left outside the door of his house at Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, a police official in Anbar province said.
Refugees turn their backs on Iraq
Refugees turn their backs on Iraq By Stephen Starr DAMASCUS - Like thousands of other Iraqi refugees, Leila Johana Isho lives in a state of flux.
Students level sodomy charge at JandK cops
Srinagar, Oct. 31: Three teenaged students have told a court that police forced them to sodomise each other in custody, their bail application drawing a parallel with the alleged torture in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
Mark Danner: Scoring Assymetrical Warfare
If, as guesstimated, Osama Bin Laden spent half a million dollars to recruit, feed and train the perpetrators of 911, and if the US has spent or committed something like $2-trillion on our 8-year response, the asymmetry of costs in this global war on terror is something like 4-million to 1. And that's just the money.
Former AG Gonzales speaks at UT Martin
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales got a mixed reception during a speech at UT Martin on Thursday.
Terrorism in India--Who Killed Karkare?
While the human rights abuses at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib by the Bush administration have been exposed, documented and condemned by the world, similar abuses of Muslims in India's "war on terror" have gone largely unnoticed.
Major attacks in Iraq since Jan. 1
Major attacks in Iraq since Jan. 1, when a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact took effect: - Oct.
Health care gets slashed and burned in 'Saw VI'
In "Saw VI," the prime victim is William , an insurance veep who invented a mathematical formula to weed the potential sickies from the healthies.
George W. Bush speaks in Saskatoon; anti-war protesters call for his arrest
About 300 people staged a demonstration outside a Saskatoon auditorium, where former U.S. president George W. Bush gave a speech Wednesday.
VIDEO: Protest at Fort Lewis Highlights Abuses at Fort Lewis Brig
October 18, 2009 -- Veterans from around the northwest converged on Fort Lewis on Sunday to protest the violation of prisoners' rights at the Fort Lewis brig.
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November 4, 2007: Judge: Waterboarding Is a Crime
Evan Wallach, a New York judge who teaches the law of war at two New York City law schools, pens an editorial for the Washington Post protesting the argument that waterboarding has somehow become legal.
Video: The Abu Ghraib Of The Great Society — Andrew Breitbart On ACORN
Recorded this past Saturday at Western CPAC, when Andrew Breitbart of Big Government, Big Hollywood and other sites in the burgeoning Breitbart new media empire held an interview with the bloggers covering the event.
Iraq's once-thriving honey industry battling to regain its buzz
ABU GHRAIB, Iraq: Iraq's once-flourishing honey industry is struggling to revive itself, hit by long-term environmental degradation and six years of unrest that followed the 2003 US-led invasion.
Liberty in the decade of extraordinary rendition
'The US developed its own definition of torture and began transporting captives to ghost prisons and a little-known military base in Cuba' A prisoner in an outdoor solitary confinement cage talks with a military policeman at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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Why Wright State is wrong: the controversial appointment of Dr. Larry James
Bob Fitrakis Why Wright State is wrong: the controversial appointment of Dr. Larry James October 14, 2009 Who is Dr.
House Amendment Puts Abuse of Prisoners Back in Spotlight
An amendment from Sen. Joseph Lieberman , which was part of a homeland security appropriations bill that passed in the House Oct.
Respond to this Article April 2005 Once news of the abuse at Abu Ghraib broke last April, it took just four days for the Senate Armed Services Committee to summon Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to testify.
By the time his tumultuous eight years in office came to a close, the Republican's grip on the Oval Office swept emphatically away by a soaring oratory promising change and hope which found fertile ground amongst the electorate of an economically devastated, globally distrusted and war-weary United States, George W. Bush was widely considered to be ...
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