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...hand in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The Administration's Syria strategy, says a U.S. official, is to get "the international community to speak with one voice," perhaps via U.N. Security Council sanctions if a U.N. investigation implicates Assad's regime in Hariri's murder. When the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, warned Syria last week that "our patience is running out," Assad's Information Minister called the remark a "clear escalation in a chain of successive pressures on Syria." Sounds like somebody is getting the message. --By George Baghdadi, Scott MacLeod, Elaine Shannon...
CONVICTED. CHAI SOUA VANG, 36, Hmong immigrant and National Guard veteran accused of fatally shooting six deer hunters and wounding two others, all but one of them unarmed, after they confronted Vang about trespassing; of first-degree murder; in Hayward, Wis. Vang, who shot four of the hunters in the back, said he acted in self-defense after one used a racial slur and another shot...
...disasters' aftermaths, including cleaning up the Columbia shuttle crash, he says New Orleans is the worst. In teams of two, Edwards and his comrades open each body bag, inventory the contents, decontaminate for chemical waste, then assess the victim for gunshot wounds or a shattered skull that might indicate murder, not accidental death. Each victim is photographed, with attention given to such identifiers as long-healed scars, birthmarks and tattoos. Fingerprinting and dental imaging follow before the forensic specialists collect samples of DNA, preferably a sliver of bone. Then the dead are returned to their body bags to be stored...
...continent.” It is such a condescending attitude that led his supposedly righteous British liberators to expel Africans from their arable lands leading to land problems that still trouble post-colonial African states. The same British were responsible for a gulag of 1.5 million Kenyans and the murder of hundreds of thousands well into the United Nations era. His other righteous liberators were even worse: the Germans massacred 90 percent of Herero people in Namibia, the Belgians 40 percent of Congo’s pre-colonial population, and the Dutch setting up apartheid in South Africa. To dismiss...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation Report of Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in 2003 had the New Orleans murder rate seven times higher than the national average. By mid-summer, total murders in the city neared 200, a nine percent increase from last year...