 Video: GuardianFilms and BBC Newsnight present ... Award-winning Guardian war photographer Sean Smith explodes the myth that Iraqis are preparing to take control of their own country. Sean Smith, the Guardian's award-winning war photographer, spent nearly six weeks with the 101st Division of the US army in Iraq. Watch his haunting observational film that explodes the myth around the claims that the Iraqis are preparing to take control of their own country. Contains some strong language. Slideshow: Sean Smith in IraqSpecial report: Iraq This presentation requires Flash 8. Link to download it for free. ...
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Editor - 13:11:00 10-20-06
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 Man, 89, guilty of killing 10 in farmer's market crash |
An elderly driver who killed 10 people and injured more than 70 when his car plowed through a farmers market was found guilty Friday of 10 counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.George Russell Weller, 89, was not in court to hear the verdict. He faces as many as 18 years in prison.Weller, who is frail and in poor health, attended only the trial's opening statements.Jurors deliberated eight days before reaching the harshest verdict possible in the crash in Santa Monica three years ago.Weller's attorneys argued he was a victim of "pedal error," that mistook his car's accelerator for the brake and panicked when the vehicle raced into the open-air market on July 16, 2003.Prosecutors said he was careless to the point of criminal negligence and lacked remorse....
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/20/market.crash.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us
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Editor - 12:37:00 10-20-06
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| Blue Ice, Apparently From Holding Tank of Aircraft Toilet, Rips Hole in Elderly Couple's Roof |
A chunk of blue ice, apparently from the holding tank of an aircraft toilet, ripped a hole in an elderly couple's roof and destroyed a bed. William McElroy was watching a movie with his wife Evelyn and would normally have been in the bed when the block of ice crashed into the house Wednesday night. "It was a huge crash. It shook the whole building but we thought it was a car," McElroy said. The couple went outside to investigate but found nothing, so they returned to finish watching the movie. They didn't discover the chunk of ice on the bed and the 2-foot-wide hole in the ceiling until Thursday morning. "If I'd been looking at TV (in his bedroom) I'd have had it," he said. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2592055
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Editor - 12:22:00 10-20-06
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| How to Make a Power Grab 'Mundane' |
“Bush Signs Terrorism Measure” -- looks like just another routine report on the approval of a piece of legislation, accompanied by the usual “he said/ she said” balancing quotes. The Military Commissions Act is widely seen as legalizing torture, but the article avoids any such mention of the T-word. Though the act revolutionizes American jurisprudence by permitting the use of tortured confessions in judicial proceedings, the Post discretely notes only that defendants will face “restrictions on their ability to ... exclude evidence gained through witness coercion.” The lead of the Post article declares that the new law will “set the rules for the trials of key al-Qaeda members.” The Post neglects to mention that the bill codifies the president’s power to label anyone on Earth an “enemy combatant” -- based on secret evidence which the government need not disclose...
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003284714
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Editor - 12:17:00 10-20-06
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| Bush to Hear About Changing Iraq Tactics |
Bush acknowledged Friday that the situation in Iraq was tough and said he would consult with American generals to see if a change in tactics was necessary to combat the escalating violence. Seventy-four American troops have died in Iraq in October, likely to become the deadliest month for U.S. forces in nearly two years. ``One of the reasons you're seeing more casualties is the enemy is active and so are our troops,'' Bush said in a brief interview with The Associated Press. He said he planned consultations in the next day with Gen. John Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, and Gen. George Casey, who leads the U.S.-led Multinational Forces in Iraq. ``We are constantly adjusting tactics so we can achieve our objectives and right now, it's tough,'' the president said. ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6160332,00.html
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Editor - 12:09:00 10-20-06
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| "How Orwellian can you get?" - RFID for air travellers |
A plan to tag air travellers with RFID chips to improve airport security by monitoring passengers as they kill time after check-in in airport coffee shops and departure lounges has been slammed by silicon.com readers as "another ill thought out idea", "a solution looking for a problem" and even "dead in the water". Electrical engineers working on University College London's 'Optag' project have designed a prototype RFID tag with a much greater range than a standard RFID chip - up to 20 metres. The new tags are to be trialled at an airport in Hungary next month and, if successful, could be rolled out to airports within two years, according to project lead Dr Paul Brennan. But a smooth rollout is unlikely, judging by the overwhelmingly negative reaction of silicon.com readers - many of whom cast doubt on the effectiveness of the tagging technology as a security measure. ...
http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39163311,00.htm
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Editor - 12:07:00 10-20-06
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