Activist held under Terrorism Act ~ BBC.com Thursday, 8 February 2007 A Muslim activist has been arrested in east London over allegations of encouraging terrorism. Abu Izzadeen was arrested in Leyton High Road by counter-terrorism officers, Scotland Yard said. He hit the headlines last September after heckling Home Secretary John Reid but it is understood…
Trial Exposes White House Crisis Machine By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS – Published: February 9, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) — David Addington, chief legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, says he was taken aback when the White House started making public pronouncements about the CIA leak investigation. In the fall of 2003, President Bush’s press secretary…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes… (More) WASHINGTON (CNN) — A grand jury indicted three Army Reserve officers and two civilians Wednesday on charges they steered more than $8.6 million in Iraqi reconstruction funds to a contractor…
Mistrial Declared for War Resister Lt. Watada By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet Posted February 8, 2007 (Cohn and Watada with Mikael Rudolph of ImpeachforPeace.org) When the Army judge declared a mistrial over defense objection in 1st Lt. Ehren Watada’s court martial on Wednesday, he probably didn’t realize jeopardy attached. That means that under the Double Jeopardy…
