Pilot who flew through restricted NY Airspace= Murderer?

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday December 30, @03:44AM

Pilot Mike: Pull err-borne boneheads' license

NY Post -December 30, 2003 --

The small-plane pilot who sparked a terror alert when he flew through restricted airspace and buzzed the Statue of Liberty should lose his license, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday...

...The pilot, Richard Michael Langone, shares the same name and birthday as a convicted murderer who once served 15 years for fatally shooting another then-teen in a dispute over a $10 bet on a sandlot football game.

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Anti Muslim Anger effects other

posted by fortype2 on Monday July 21, @10:36AM

Reuters/Swissinfo -July 21

Photo: Mohamed Nimer, director of research at the Council on American-Islamic Relations

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (July 21) - ''Go back to Iraq!'' the young men shouted as they beat and kicked the pizza delivery man in the face, breaking his jaw in three places.

They bound his thin body with rope, stuffed a sock in his mouth to muffle his screams for help and used the back of his neck as an ashtray. They stuffed him into the trunk of a car, where he managed to set himself free -- only to be stabbed.

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Oklahoma Courthouse Bomber Has State Hearing

posted by NYC on Monday May 05, @12:24PM

By James Campbell

From the National Desk

Upi.com

Published 5/5/2003 3:55 PM

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 5 (UPI) -- The long-delayed preliminary hearing in the state's effort to execute bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols began Monday, highlighted by his former wife's denial of incriminating statements FBI agents attributed to her.

Nichols, 48, convicted in federal court of conspiracy and the involuntary manslaughter of eight federal agents in the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, faces 160 counts of first degree murder and one of manslaughter.

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The case for war crimes indictments against the Bush regime

posted by admin on Friday April 18, @02:17PM

by Jack Rabbit

This post is being written for those who, like Muddleoftheroad, believe it would either be unjustified or unwise to bring war crimes charges against Mr. Bush and other members of his administration arising out of the invasion of Iraq. There are those of us who contend that it would be both justified and wise.

Iraq posed no immanent threat to the United States or anyone else. The best available intelligence showed that Iraq’s military capabilities were much reduced from what they were at the end of the Gulf War in 1991. Any claims to the contrary are bogus. The United States charged that Iraq aided al-Qaida, the terrorist organization responsible for the attacks against the US on September 11, 2001. However, no evidence was presented to support such a claim. Indeed, al-Qaida terrorizes the world in order to promote an Islamic fundamentalist agenda. It has no use for secular Arab governments, such as Saddam’s Iraq. Meanwhile, Saddam had no use for threats to his secular regime posed by supporters of Islamic fundamentalist organizations in his Iraq. He brutally suppressed such opposition. The charges of cooperation between Saddam’s Ba’athist government and al-Qaida are absurd. The repetition of the charges by members of the Bush Administration can only be characterized as deliberate lies.

There is the legal argument. Why should we have a body of international laws and conventions if they can be cast aside for the convenience of a tyrant? Laws are made to be applied equally. International law tell strong nations and weak alike when war is justified and what acts of war are legal. Mr. Bush is no less subject to international humanitarian law than is Saddam.

The Charter of the United Nations recognizes two justifications for war. The first of these is self-defense. A nation may take up arms if it is under attack or under the immanent threat of an attack. This rules out any “pre-emptive” attack taken under the so-called Bush Doctrine outlined in the National Security Strategy of the United States (see Part V). The term pre-emptive in that doctrine is misused; the proper term for the kind of strike that Mr. Bush asserts is preventative . A preventative strike is one undertaken to prevent a potential threat from materializing. Clearly, such a threat is not immanent and is illegal under existing international law. Were Mr. Bush to undertake military action with no better justification than is laid down in the National Security Strategy, it would be a war crime on its face.

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Enronomics: U.S. Troops Make Up For Veterans Cuts

posted by admin on Wednesday April 16, @05:47PM

Iraqi Gold Is Sure To Fetch A Pretty Penny On Ebay

U.S. Troops Seize Iraqi Trophies for Fun and Profit

Mon April 14, 2003 05:13 AM ET

By Matthew Green

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Staff Sergeant Nathan Braswell hopes a flag he found in a captured Iraqi base will earn him a tidy sum when he sells it on the Internet.

Like many fellow U.S. Marines, Braswell grabbed the trophy as American forces advanced on Baghdad. Unlike the souvenir-hunting majority, he doesn't plan to keep it.

"I got the flag that was in the commanding general's building. It's very large. It's in great condition," said Braswell, 24, who picked up the Iraqi national colors on the eastern outskirts of the city.

"I'm going to put the flag on eBay," he said, referring to the Internet auction sight where memorabilia from the toppled regime of Saddam Hussein are already in hot demand.

"Some collector would probably like it."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID;=2559476

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Crony Capitalism Works, Damn it!

posted by admin on Tuesday April 08, @08:39AM

From The Guardian

Tuesday April 8, 2003 8:00 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Questioning whether Vice President Dick Cheney's former company has received favored treatment from the Pentagon, senior House Democrats asked Congress' investigative agency Tuesday to delve into contracts awarded Halliburton Co. over the past two years.

Halliburton's KBR subsidiary has a record of gouging the government in contracts awarded without competition, Reps. Henry Waxman of California and John Dingell of Michigan contended in a letter to the General Accounting Office.

Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall said the lawmakers have ignored the exemplary record of the Houston-based firm that employed Cheney as chief executive officer from 1995 to 2000 and still pays him deferred compensation for his services during that period.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2542859,00.html

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