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Breaking: Capitol Police are investigating an incident in which Rep. Cynthia McKinney allegedly punched an officer. Source: FOX News Update (3/30/2006 7:22am): The Drudge Report says the entire incident is on video and that the officer involved is pressing charges against her. And that Capitol Police will arrest her after Congress adjourns. Hat tip: The [...]
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Corriere della Sera says a terrorist trap may have killed Nicola Calipari. AGI reports that the Corriere della Sera story said, “Mustafa Mohammed Salman, currently imprisoned in Iraq, according to whom it was the Imam of the Sunnite mosque, the sheik Hussein (who Sgrena was supposed to meet with the day she was kidnapped) to [...]
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said today, “we are very glad to be able to welcome someone who has been so courageous,” when asked about asylum for Abudul Rahman. Where was the United States, the champion of Human Rights, doing throughout Abdul Rahman’s ordeal? In my opinion, Washington was playing the violin while a brave man [...]
Italy’s Premier Silvio Berlusconi says “we are very glad to be able to welcome someone who has been so courageous,” when asked about asylum for Abudul Rahman: Globe and Mail—“I say that we are very glad to be able to welcome someone who has been so courageous,” Mr. Berlusconi said, when asked by Associated Press [...]
Sean Hannity is talking about Alec Baldwin’s smack down on WABC radio Sunday—right now; check it out: WABC radio
Eric Haney, a founding member of the U.S. Army’s elite DELTA Force, says the Iraq war is an “utter debacle”: sbsun.com—Utter debacle. But it had to be from the very first. The reasons were wrong. The reasons of this administration for taking this nation to war were not what they stated. (Army Gen.) Tommy Franks [...]
INDY racer Paul Dana died this morning from injuries suffered in a pre-race crash: Miami Herald—IndyCar driver Paul Dana, 30, was pronounced dead at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital shortly before noon Sunday, following a gruesome two-car crash during a morning practice session at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The other driver involved, Ed Carpenter, was alert and in [...]
Abdul Rahman has been released from prison while the prosecution’s case against him is reviewed: Ireland On-Line—An Afghan court today dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity because of a lack of evidence. He will be released soon, an official said. The official said the case had been returned to [...]
AP is reporting that Abdul Rahman has been transferred to a notorious prison “home to hundreds of Taliban and al-Qaida militants.” Source: AP
