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...Iraq as "dumb" for dictating that female soldiers who become pregnant--and the male soldiers who impregnate them--be punished, perhaps National Organization for Women president Terry O'Neill should have studied military law. It prohibits male and female service members from having sex in a combat zone. Accountability may be a foreign word to O'Neill, but it's not to the vast majority of our brave servicemen and -women...
...intelligence agencies have had their share of moles in recent years. Senior FBI agent Robert Hanssen was arrested in 2001 for turning over to Moscow the names of KGB assets working for the U.S.--information that led directly to many agents' deaths. Still, al-Balawi may be the first double agent to kill his handlers and himself. In the business of secrets and spies, it's hard to know who is the enemy...
...future. "It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes and then buying an insurance policy on the buyer," he said at one point while grilling Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein about the dodgy mortgage securities the bank sold. The dark arts that produced this crisis may finally be coming into the light...
After an eight-month investigation, a U.N. agency concluded that Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom played no role in the shooting death of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg in May 2009--despite a video left by Rosenberg saying Colom was planning to kill him. The panel said that evidence indicated Rosenberg had orchestrated his own murder to try to frame Colom, whom he blamed for involvement in the earlier slaying of his girlfriend and her father, a prominent businessman...
...China-based hackers had targeted the Gmail accounts of Chinese human-rights activists, Google is rethinking its strategy in China, where Internet access is closely circumscribed. The company, whose credo is "Don't be evil," said it will no longer censor results on its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, and may stop operating in the Chinese market altogether...