By Damien McElroy aboard USS Eisenhower Telegraph.co.uk – Last Updated: 3:34pm GMT 24/02/2007 It is four and a half acres of American power in the middle of the Arabian Sea but the influence of USS Dwight D Eisenhower stretches for hundreds of miles. Crew on board the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower are on alert in…
Army refiles charges against soldier – YahooNews – Fri Feb 23 FORT LEWIS, Wash. – The Army has refiled charges against a lieutenant who refused to serve in Iraq, about two weeks after his first court-martial was declared a mistrial. First Lt. Ehren Watada, 28, who refused to deploy with his unit last June, faces…
Canada’s top court strikes down anti-terror measures – theRawStory – AFP, Fri Feb 23, 2007 Canada’s high court on Friday quashed extraordinary security detentions of foreigners suspected of terror ties without charges for many years, saying they breach civil rights. Lawyers for three men with alleged terror links asked the Supreme Court of Canada in…
Bush and Cheney Owe an Explanation By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times – Wed, 21 Feb, 2007 One way or another, the Scooter Libby trial will soon be over. Whatever the verdict, President Bush and Vice President Cheney owe the American people a candid explanation of what went on in that period in…
