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...streets of the capital, where almost ten months after its capture, U.S. soldiers on routine patrols are targeted on a daily basis. The insurgents have also mirrored the U.S. strategy by increasingly directing attacks at Iraqi security forces supporting the coalition - more than 600 Iraqi policemen have been killed since April...
Colonel Kareem Hajem, police chief of Karbala, says investigators believe that Iraqi Salafists carried out the suicide blasts that killed six coalition soldiers and a dozen Iraqi policemen in the city last month. A senior military official says the U.S. is paying more attention to the role of Salafists because of their "long-standing relationship to terrorism in other locations." The official mentions Algeria's violent Salafist Group for Call and Combat...
RULED A HOMICIDE. The death of NATHANIEL JONES, 41, who was beaten by baton-wielding policemen for several minutes after he charged them during an encounter outside a restaurant; in Cincinnati, Ohio. The coroner said Jones had died primarily because of the violent struggle, cautioning that did not imply wrongdoing or excessive use of force, and noted that heart disease, illegal drugs and his weight (350 lbs.) were also contributing factors...
...home he faced rising costs for his diabetic son's insulin. At work he was forced to lay off teachers, policemen and fire fighters in part because of skyrocketing drug prices. So Michael Albano, the colorful mayor of Springfield, Mass., looked north for a solution. Starting in July, Springfield became the first city in the nation to officially encourage its employees to buy prescription drugs from Canada. City workers fax or mail their prescriptions to a company in Canada; the prescriptions are filled there, and the drugs are mailed to the patients' homes. The workers get a reduced copay...
...date, however, few politicians, bureaucrats or policemen exposed by the media or courts have been called to account. Corruption trials sometimes take 10-20 years to complete; the conviction rate for graft is just 6%. "There has to be some retribution," says Tehelka.com's Tejpal. "Otherwise we have no system." To some, the system is already down. "We've come to accept that for the time being, there's no way out," says anticorruption campaigner Singh. "We're into the abyss and we're only going to sink further...