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...Iran" [Feb. 23]: Those Iranians who favor better relations with the U.S. should remember that the U.S. supported the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister in 1953. The U.S. supported Saddam Hussein against Iran during the war, and they shot down an Iranian passenger plane in the Persian Gulf in 1988 killing 300 men, women and children. Iranians should never forget and forgive America. Parviz Zarrabi, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND...
...think they were not to be found.' ROBERT BLEAKLEY, father of William Bleakley, after the Coast Guard ended a three-day search for his son and two NFL players, Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, whose boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico...
...photography of U.S. military caskets returning from Iraq would be altered to allow news coverage of the caskets with express consent from the families of the deceased. This ban had been in place for 18 years, enacted under the administration of President George H. W. Bush during the Gulf War. As the regulation stood, all photography of caskets of war dead was prohibited. Under these new provisions, caskets can be photographed only with the consent of the soldiers’ families. While this is a promising development, the revisions do not go far enough. The United States owes a debt...
...been most intense in the industrial city of Monterrey, 140 miles south of Laredo, Texas. Demonstrations there began on Monday, Feb. 9, and as they grew in intensity, they produced clashes between hundreds of protesters and police on Feb. 17. The local state governor, Jose Natividad Gonzalez, accuses the Gulf cartel of orchestrating the disruptions. The crime syndicate is mimicking Mexico's hard left, he says, busing in paid protesters from the barrios to run amok...
...Gonzalez' accusations are backed up by the army and federal government. Soldiers stormed the house of Juan Antonio Beltran, whom they accused of being a protest organizer and Gulf cartel operative. In statements to the local press, the military claimed that Beltran confessed to paying the demonstrators $15 to $35 each to take to the streets. "We have to stop criminal groups trying to generate chaos through co-optation and threats," said Federal Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, the leading figure in President Felipe Calderón's campaign against crime. (See pictures of Mexico City's police fighting...