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A US military judge has ruled that the trial for Osama bin Laden's former driver should be delayed by seven weeks. A supreme court ruling on the right of detainees to challenge their imprisonment in civil courts is expected during this period. Salim Ahmed Hamdan will be the first person to face...
Democrat Barack Obama accused President George W. Bush and Republican White House pick John McCain of hypocrisy and fear-mongering, stoking an intense campaign row over national security. The Democratic presidential frontrunner said on Friday he was ready to do battle at anytime and at any place
Washington Post: Jaber Elbaneh is one of the world's most-wanted terrorism suspects. In 2003, the U.S. government indicted him, posted a $5 million reward for his capture and distributed posters bearing photos of him around the globe. None of it worked. Elbaneh remains at large, as wanted as...
MUSA QALA, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban insurgents fired at a NATO helicopter carrying a provincial governor in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, forcing it to make an emergency landing, a Reuters witness said. The helicopter was flying Helmand governor Golab Mohammad Mangal to Musa...
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sat May 17, 2008 6:16 AM EDT Bob writes: Walt Disney would have been proud of John McCain’s presentation on Thursday of what the world might look like at the end of a first McCain term as president. Listening to the speech was like walking through the gates of...
"That's enough. That that's a show of disrespect to me." That was Barack Obama, a couple of weeks back, explaining why he was casting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into outer darkness. It's one thing to wallow in "adolescent grandiosity" (as Scott Johnson of the Powerline Web site called it) when it's...
By ERIC SCHMITT and TIM GOLDEN The New York Times WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is proceeding with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners...
That – that's a show of disrespect to me." That was Barack Obama, a couple of weeks back, explaining why he was casting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into outer darkness. President Bush was in Israel the other day and gave a speech to the Knesset. No Democrat was mentioned, save for President Truman,...
HARARE, ZIMBABWE Runoff date scheduled in Zimbabwe Seven weeks after the presidential election, Zimbabwe finally set a runoff date Friday, saying longtime President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai will face off in a June 27 ballot that the opposition fears will be skewed by thuggery and f
Sen. Barack Obama pushed back Friday against President Bush's implicit criticism of his approach to foreign policy, condemning his administration for not capturing Osama bin Laden and blaming its Iraq war policy for strengthening and emboldening Iran.
