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...United States prepares to launch what is ostensibly the final chapter in the U.S. military occupation of Iraq on January 1, a new report confirms a significantly lower civilian causality count for 2008 - along with a few caveats...
...materials being given away on the nonprofit site, which has more than 6 million members around the globe. "People used to ask others in the network for luxury items," such as laptops and other high-tech gadgets, says Michelle Martinez, a Freecycle volunteer who oversees the local Freecycle chapter in Tucson, Ariz. But those requests have been replaced by ones for such basics as beds or mattresses. "I think there's a lot going on behind the scenes, as family members start moving in together, and you need more of the basics...
...Allowing the auto companies to collapse is not a responsible course of action," Bush said in his announcement, in which he also mentioned the consideration of letting the automakers go into bankruptcy: "Given the current state of the auto industry and the economy, Chapter 11 is unlikely to work for American automakers at this time...
When the next history of Iraq is written, the chapter on the stormy years following the U.S. invasion will be bookended by two iconic images: one of elated Iraqis in Firdos Square in 2003 raining their loafers and boots on a fallen statue of Saddam Hussein, and the other of President George W. Bush ducking flying footwear at a 2008 Baghdad press conference during the last official visit of his term. In many Eastern cultures, hurling a shoe at someone is a grave insult. Iraqi TV reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi's decision to fling his size 10s made...
...abuse, detainees aren't competent to plead guilty, as the five men are trying to do. Disputes over issues like that make it unlikely the proceedings will wrap up before the Inauguration on Jan. 20--which will complicate Obama's task of closing the facility and ending an embarrassing chapter in the war on terrorism. In any event, the military judge, Army Colonel Stephen R. Henley, refused to accept the guilty pleas. He said he needed first to resolve the question of whether a plea--instead of a guilty verdict by a panel of judges--might actually prevent his court...