 There's controversy over how the military is transporting the bodies of service members killed overseas, 10News reported. A local family said fallen soldiers and Marines deserve better and that one would think our war heroes are being transported with dignity, care and respect. It said one would think upon arrival in their hometowns they are greeted with honor. But unfortunately, the family said that is just not the case. Dead heroes are supposed to come home with their coffins draped with the American flag -- greeted by a color guard. But in reality, many are arriving as freight on commercial airliners -- stuffed in the belly of a plane with suitcases and other cargo. John Holley and his wife, Stacey, were stunned when they found out the body of their only child, Matthew, who died in Iraq last month, would be arriving at Lindbergh Field as freight. "When someone dies in combat, they need to give them due respect they deserve for (the) sacrifice they made," said John Holley....
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 Baghdad Family Struggles with Backdrop of Danger Methboubs Live in Spare Apartment and Hesitate Before Hitting the Streets -- Even to Vote |
In noting that the Methboub family of Baghdad "has seen its trials and tribulations," Christian Science Monitor reporter Scott Peterson could be describing any family in Iraq that lived through Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and now the American occupation.But today, he is telling the story of the Methboubs, a Shiite Muslim family in Baghdad he has been following for three years. "Their apartment now is as Spartan as I've seen it in the past couple of years," Peterson says. "They are … subject and dependant on city electricity, which is sometimes just a couple of hours a day. So for them, their lives really haven't seen that much improvement."...
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqWhereThingsStand/story?id=1395642&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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Editor - 17:00:00 12-11-05
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| Bus fireworks tragedy kills 40 |
A firecracker thrown by a celebrant at a wedding set a bus filled with guests on fire in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 40 people and injuring 12 others, police said.The accident occurred in central Lahore, the capital of Punjab province.The firecracker exploded under the vehicle's fuel tank, setting it and a large amount of fireworks inside on fire, Amir Zulfikar, a senior police officer, said.Forty bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the bus, he said.At least 12 others were injured, Zulfikar said. More than 70 people were believed to have been on the crowded bus."It took seconds until the bus was engulfed by flames and people hardly had any chance to rescue anyone," he said....
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Editor - 16:55:00 12-11-05
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| Flu, Diarrhea Strikes Volcano Refugee Camp |
Isolated cases of flu and diarrhea have broken out in an evacuation center for villagers ordered from their homes after a volcano began erupting on this remote South Pacific island, officials said Sunday. Morris Harrison, a Vanuatu geophysicist, said low-level earthquakes continued to shake Ambae Island, "and if they continue or increase in size we will be worried."Several thousand people were evacuated last weekend after Mout Manaro began spewing steam, sulfur gas and ash up to 10,000 feet above this island of 10,000 villagers in northern Vanuatu....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178378,00.html
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Editor - 16:52:00 12-11-05
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| Security Shutdown In Iraq |
The government announced Sunday it will close all borders, extend curfew hours and ban travel across provincial borders as part of stringent security measures to protect voters during this week's parliamentary elections. Also, U.S. commanders in Iraq said a roadside bomb claimed the life of another American soldier. A statement said the soldier was killed Sunday when the bomb blew up near his patrol in western Baghdad. It's the seventh U-S combat fatality in the Baghdad area since Thursday. Meanwhile, assailants blew up an electoral center Sunday in a town 12 miles south of Samarra and opened fire on a Turkoman political party office in Mosul, wounding three people, police said. ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=World_541815
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| Bush, Blair Tout Trade-Deal Benefits That World Bank Cuts Back |
Bush is talking up the benefits of a world trade agreement just as economists who made those projections are cutting them back. Trade negotiators meet in Hong Kong this week to work on the outline of an agreement that Bush, citing World Bank research, said last month will lift as many as 300 million people out of poverty and boost incomes in developed nations. British Prime Minister Tony Blair referred to similar estimates in his annual foreign policy speech in London Nov. 14. Meanwhile, the World Bank -- which two years ago forecast an $800 billion-a-year boost to the global economy from the elimination of trade barriers -- says much of that potential benefit has since been lost. The bank now expects $96 billion from the current round of talks, with only a fraction of that flowing to the poorest nations. Declining expectations may make it difficult to get any agreement in Hong Kong. ...
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