Five US contractors arrested for murder of colleague by Stephen C. Webster Five men arrested Sunday in Baghdad could become the first Americans to be tried under Iraqi law.From The New York Times: 'The men were arrested in connection with the killing of James Owen Kitterman, 60, an American reconstruction contractor who was found stabbed to death on May 22. Maj. Gen Hussein Kamal, the deputy minister for intelligence of the Interior Ministry, said, “The five detainees are from the same company as the American contractor who was slain.”
Shootout kills 16 gunmen, 2 soldiers in Acapulco by Natalia Parra ACAPULCO, Mexico – It was a shootout straight from Hollywood in the former playground of its biggest stars: Masked and heavily armed Mexican soldiers battled outlaws holed up in a hillside mansion in a four-hour shootout that had tourists cowering in hotels nearby.
A Glimpse of Obama in a Cairo Emptied of Its People and Its Poor by Robert Fisk Go into the average newspaper office and you'll find the reporters staring at Sky News or the BBC or Al-Jazeera International.But visit the studios of Sky News, the BBC or Al-Jazeera International, and you'll discover that all the journalists there are reading newspapers. Its an odd form of osmosis which - being an old-fashioned reporter - I'm not very happy about. I still believe, along with an encouraging number of young Arab and Israeli reporters, that we've got to be out on the streets, just as I was when I started in journalism in the Blyth office of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle. So Fisk was prowling the streets of Cairo this week, hunting for Obama and Lady Hilary.
Debunking Canadian Health Care Myths by Rhonda Hackett As a Canadian living in the United States for the past 17 years, I am frequently asked by Americans and Canadians alike to declare one health care system as the better one.Often I'll avoid answering, regardless of the questioner's nationality. To choose one or the other system usually translates into a heated discussion of each one's merits, pitfalls, and an intense recitation of commonly cited statistical comparisons of the two systems.
Castro Questions Timing of Cuban Spy Arrests by Anita Snow HAVANA - Fidel Castro called the case of two Americans accused of spying for Cuba 'strange' Saturday and questioned whether the timing of their arrests was politically motivated.In an essay read by a newscaster on state television, the former Cuban leader noted that the retired Washington couple were taken into custody just 24 hours after the Organization of American States voted to lift a decades-old suspension of Cuba's membership in that group.
Kurtz excuses O’Reilly’s incitement of violence against Tiller by David Edwards and Joe Byrne Panelists on this morning’s broadcast of CNN’s Reliable Sources came to an agreement in the murder case of Dr. George Tiller. Host Howard Kurtz insisted that Bill O’Reilly doesn’t share blame in the abortion doctor’s murder. 'I think it’s unfair to demonize O’Reilly in this matter, but at the same time, I wish he had denounced the murder of Tiller more forcefully,' said Kurtz.
Report: A full third of US cocaine smuggled in subs by Stephen C. Webster Increasingly, South American drug smugglers are relying on small, fast submersible vehicles to transport cocaine into the United States, according to sources in a new report by The Washington Post.The Post notes: 'An experimental oddity just two years ago, these strange semi-submarines are the cutting edge of drug trafficking today. They ferry hundreds of tons of cocaine for powerful Mexican cartels that are taking over the Pacific Ocean route for most northbound shipments, according to the Colombian navy.
Are Neil Rogers' days numbered at WQAM? by Tom Jicha I read your recent article regarding Neil Rogers' suspension for not dumping a profanity when referring to WQAM's general manager, Joe Bell. I was a longtime listener of Neil until about one year ago. Although I would change stations when Jorge Rodriguez substituted for Neil during the summer, I thought Jorge was Neil's right-hand man. Did Bell give a reason for firing Jorge? Is Jorge's firing a sign that Neil's days are numbered at WQAM? — J.H., Boca Raton
