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Chris had not made it back to Kuwait. His vehicle had apparently swerved into a ditch trying to avoid a civilian vehicle outside Baghdad; he died shortly after being airlifted to a hospital south of Baghdad...
...should feel free to give breaks of their own. "Governments should have some control over the economy," Stewart argues. "If they choose to run very large deficits, it's not a huge problem." Now loosen that belt. Lights, Camera, IPO Want a piece of the movies? Los Angeles-based Civilian Pictures is offering 900,000 shares in an upcoming picture Billy Dead. At $8.75 a pop, the firm hopes to attract over $7 million to make the murder mystery...
...face a military tribunal empowered to sentence them to death be sent home instead to face British justice. Much of the British public doubts the fairness and legality of military tribunals and of the Guantanamo detentions; they want to know why Britons captured in Afghanistan are denied a civilian trial when John Walker Lindh was tried by a U.S. court; and they oppose capital punishment. Blair and Bush are slated to discuss the matter and release a statement Friday. Blair is being advised by some veteran British politicians to put his foot down on the Guantanamo Brits, precisely because...
Three months after the fall of Baghdad, a grim fact of life for Bremer as well as his 600-member civilian staff and the 146,000 American soldiers is that they are still struggling to police Iraq's streets, restore electricity, fix the economy, rebuild schools, monitor local elections and nudge the country toward democracy--all while waging a counterinsurgency campaign against an increasingly brazen assortment of militants who have killed more than 30 U.S. and British soldiers in the past two months. It's not going well. In Baghdad recent attacks on infrastructure targets left the power and water...
...they'll be sent to Guant?namo" if they return. Or, he adds, "[the Taliban] pay people to join their jihad." Mullah Nik Mohammed, a Taliban commander captured in Spin Boldak, told his interrogators that he would have received $850 for detonating a bomb, double that if it killed a civilian, and $2,600 for taking a soldier's life...