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...edge of Dubie's biggest refugee camp. "Essentially people are dying of starvation," says Delfin Kapia, a medic for msf, as he struggles to inject antibiotics into a six-month-old boy weighing just 4.6 kg. The following day, Dubie's first food delivery since January arrived. The U.N. truck convoy had taken nearly four weeks to traverse 480 km of dirt track. Despite the dramatic nature of the crisis, U.N. officials say they face deep skepticism among Western governments in appealing for fresh billions in aid dollars. Congo's conflict has ground on for almost a decade, involving several...
...Attorney Robert Spencer argued that if Moussaoui had told the FBI what he knew about the 9/11 plot in advance, authorities "would have prevented" the hijackings and thousands of lives could have been saved. Martin, 51, a veteran in the aviation field, thought defense attorneys could "drive a truck" through that assertion, as she later e-mailed a scheduled witness in the case. Thus she took it upon herself to coach that witness and six other current or former government aviation experts scheduled to testify in ways to fend off the opposing lawyers...
...bodies began to show up early last week. On Monday, 34 corpses were found. In the darkness of Tuesday morning, 15 more men, between the ages of 22 and 40 were found in the back of a pickup truck in the al-Khadra district of western Baghdad. They had been hanged. By daybreak, 40 more bodies were found around the city, most bearing signs of torture before the men were killed execution-style. The most gruesome discovery was an 18-by-24-foot mass grave in the Shi'ite slum of Kamaliyah in east Baghdad containing the bodies...
...moot point, according to Captain McKinney, who recently returned from Iraq. With insurgents attacking American soldiers on all sides, there is no clear front line in Iraq. McKinney, while traveling in a convoy, noted that a woman was in control of the machine gun on the back of the truck. “Essentially, that was where the front line was,” he says.Frost called the war in Iraq a “threshold event” for women in the army. “Women are showing by their everyday deeds that they...
...fill a prescription for high blood pressure medication, placing you at greater risk of a heart attack or stroke? Have you thought about where and how you?d take care of someone in your family who got sick, to avoid infecting anyone else in the house? What if enough truck drivers who deliver chlorine to water treatment plants get sick that the water in your community is no longer treated? Is there a stock of water that you could rely on in such an emergency? Now might be a good time to get to know your neighbors better, since...