 Four New Orleans police officers were charged with first-degree murder Thursday in connection with two fatal shootings during Hurricane Katrina's chaotic aftermath. Three other officers were charged with attempted murder in the shootings, which also injured four civilians. The shootings became one of the most widely cited examples of the chaos that ensued after Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city in August 2005. The district attorney portrayed the officers as trigger happy. "We cannot allow our police officers to shoot and kill our citizens without justification like rabid dogs," District Attorney Eddie Jordan said. Two young men were killed and four people wounded on the Danziger Bridge, which spans the Industrial Canal. ...
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 Ford attacks Bush over Iraq invasion in message from beyond the grave |
President George Bush, accustomed to criticism from Republicans of his father's generation, suffered a rebuke from beyond the grave from the late president Gerald Ford yesterday in published comments calling the war on Iraq a mistake. In an interview with the Washington Post's Bob Woodward, granted on condition that it be published only after Mr Ford's death, the late president said he strongly disagreed with Mr Bush's stated justification for the war - that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. He also suggested Mr Bush had departed from his overriding duty as president to act in America's national interest. "I don't think I would have gone to war," Mr Ford told Woodward in an interview at his Colorado home in July 2004. "I would have maximised our effort through sanctions, through restrictions, whatever to find another answer."The criticism from Mr Ford extended to the architects of the war - the former Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and ...
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| North Carolina bar association files charges against Duke prosecutor |
The North Carolina bar filed ethics charges Thursday against the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case, accusing him of saying misleading or inflammatory things to the news media about the athletes under suspicion. The punishment for ethics violations can range from admonishment to disbarment. The complaint could also force District Attorney Mike Nifong off the case by creating a conflict of interest."He's got this hanging over his head," said Thomas Metzloff, a Duke law professor and member of the bar's ethics committee for the past 10 years. "It relates so much to his underlying conduct in the case." Among the four rules of professional conduct that Nifong was accused of violating was a prohibition against making comments "that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused." In a statement, the bar said it opened a case against Nifong on March 30, a little more than two weeks after a 28-year-old woman hired to perform as a stripper at ...
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| Palestinian deaths 'rose in 2006' |
Israeli security forces killed 660 Palestinians in 2006 - three times more than in 2005, according to an Israeli human rights group. B'Tselem, which monitors human rights in the occupied territories, said the figure included 141 children. At least 322 had taken no part in hostile acts, the group said. In the same period, the number of deadly Palestinian attacks on Israelis has fallen - 23 Israelis were killed in 2006 compared with 50 last year. The Israeli military renewed ground operations in the Gaza Strip after militants captured an Israeli soldier in a border raid in June. Since June, Israeli troops have killed about 405 Palestinians in Gaza, including 88 children. More than half of the casualties were civilians, B'Tselem said. ...
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| U.S.: Saddam Likely To Die By Sunday CBS News: Officer Says Ex-Dictator To Be Turned Over To Iraqis Within 36 Hours, Executed By Sunday |
A U.S. military officer tells CBS News that Saddam Hussein will be turned over to the Iraqi government within the next 36 hours. The officer expects that the Iraqis will execute their former leader before the start of the Eid religious holiday on Sunday, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin. Iraqi officials also said that Saddam's final moments will be videotaped by the government, reports CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston. "We will video everything," National Security adviser Mouffak al Rubaie said. "All documentation will be videoed. Taking him from cell to the execution is going to be videoed, and the actual execution will be documented and videoed." Iraqis, members of the coalition and international representatives will witness the execution, Pinkston reports. It's not clear whether the videotape will be broadcast on Iraqi television. ...
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| Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Critical of Plan to Mine Afghan-Pakistan Border |
President Hamid Karzai criticized Pakistan's plan to mine and fence its border with Afghanistan, saying Thursday that it will separate families but not prevent terrorism.Karzai's remarks came two days after Pakistan said it would plant land mines and build a fence on parts of its 1,510-mile frontier with Afghanistan.The Pakistani move was an effort to fend off criticism it does too little to stop Taliban and Al Qaeda guerrillas from crossing the border. Pakistan has also said it will send unspecified military reinforcements to the frontier, joining about 80,000 soldiers already in the country's northwestern tribal regions.Still, relations have been souring between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are key U.S. allies in its war on terror groups. Karzai said terrorists will still find a way to cross the border to attack in Afghanistan....
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