 Four American soldiers were killed in separate attacks in the Baghdad area Saturday, the day kidnappers of four Christian peace activists set as a deadline for killing the hostages unless U.S. and Iraqi authorities released all prisoners. The attacks occurred five days before crucial national elections, which U.S. authorities hope will help stem the insurgency. Two of the soldiers were killed by small-arms fire southwest of the capital, the U.S. command said in a statement. The others died in a roadside bombing in the Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah and by small arms fire north of the city, the command said. Also Saturday, the U.S. military said an American soldier was killed and 11 others wounded the day before in a suicide car bombing in the Abu Ghraib district of western Baghdad. At least 2,140 members of the U.S. military have died since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. ...
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 Bush seeks prompt Congress vote on anti-boogieman law |
Bush asked Congress on Saturday for a prompt vote to extend an anti-terrorism law created after the September 11 attacks, calling it a "strong weapon" for fighting terrorism.The Senate and House of Representatives were to vote on the renewal of the USA Patriot Act next week after Republican negotiators said on Thursday they crafted a compromise bill. The deal has been harshly criticized by several Senate Republicans and Democrats and its fate was uncertain. Some opponents said civil liberties concerns were not satisfactorily addressed. That something like the traitorous Patriot Act can be passed in a so-called free county and the people still think they live in the land of the brave and free boggles the mind. That these who proposed such a thing were not tarred and feathered and run out of the country on a hot rail is a tribute to how far we have sunk....
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| Historians: Past Eras Were Worse Than Now Think We've Got It Bad? Historians Say Past Eras Were Worse Than the Present |
Terrorist attacks, a war in Iraq and natural disasters aren't so bad compared to other tough times in America's past, from the Revolutionary War to the Cold War, history professors say. Asked to compare eight difficult periods of the nation's history, 46 percent of the 354 professors who responded to a nationwide survey agreed the current era was the least trying. The Civil War, 55 percent said, was the toughest. Researchers at the Siena Research Institute of Siena College came up with the survey after hearing students comment they felt today's era was one of the most trying in America's history. "It's an issue of perspective," said Thomas Kelly, a professor emeritus of history and American studies at Siena who helped conduct the survey, which was released Thursday. ...
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| GOP ad blasts Democrats' 'retreat and defeat' |
The Republican National Committee yesterday released a hard-hitting Web ad that shows the white flag of surrender waving in front of Democrats as they complain about the Iraq war. "Democrats have a plan for Iraq," a line of text reads at the beginning of the 60-second spot. "Retreat and defeat." The ad then shows a white flag waving in front of Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean as he tells a San Antonio radio station: "The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that, unfortunately, it's just plain wrong." DNC spokesman Josh Earnest responded: "It's a shame that President Bush and the Republicans are more interested in attacking Democrats than in attacking the terrorists. Our troops deserve better." The ad is the latest and most pointed in a series of coordinated attacks by President Bush and his supporters to counter Democratic complaints about the Iraq war. ...
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Editor - 08:28:00 12-10-05
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| Soviet air bases in Poland are labelled secret CIA sites |
The CIA operated two secret "black sites" for terrorism suspects in Poland, the main European location for the clandestine operation, according to a Polish press report yesterday.The military expert with Human Rights Watch, which said last month that US intelligence had been using facilities in Poland and Romania to incarcerate and interrogate senior al-Qaida suspects, told the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper that about a quarter of 100 prisoners had been held secretly at two former Soviet air bases in Poland. The detainees were said to have been airlifted out of Poland ahead of this week's visit to Europe by Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, whose talks in Brussels, Berlin, and Romania have been dominated by the row over alleged CIA torture compounds in eastern Europe....
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| Doors close on bus case Technicality frees Arvada woman who refused to show ID |
Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against Deborah Davis, the 53-year-old Arvada woman who refused to show her identification to federal police officers on an RTD bus traveling through the Federal Center in Lakewood. Davis' supporters, at first jubilant to learn Wednesday morning that she will not be prosecuted, were dismayed to learn hours later that officers of the Federal Protective Service still will ask passengers on the public bus to show their identification. The policy applies to all passengers, including those, as in Davis' case, who are traveling through the Federal Center and not getting off the bus there. Federal officials said the Davis case was closed because of a technicality involving a problem with a sign at the Federal Center at the time Davis was ticketed. The sign was supposed to inform people that their IDs would be checked. "The policy hasn't changed," said Jamie Zuieback, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, of which ...
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