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Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants
DEXTER FILKINS and MARK MAZZETTI/NYT
KABUL, Afghanistan — Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States.
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US: Katrina
The second guilty plea in the Danziger Bridge case today revealed additional details about the conduct of New Orleans police after Hurricane Katrina and suggested more prosecutions of higher-ranking officers are yet to come.
Former police detective Jeffrey Lehrmann pleaded guilty to failing to report a felony in connection to a [...]
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Dubai
Interpol joined an international task force investigating the Dubai assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The international policing organization also said it was convinced of the broad, international scope of the crime.
The notices, short of international arrest warrants but a request to Interpol members to detain the named people for extradition, bring to 27 the [...]
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Puerto Rico
A White House task force on Puerto Rico’s ties with the United States heard from islanders across the political spectrum Wednesday at a hearing that tapped into deep emotions surrounding a decades-old debate.
U.S. Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, a task force co-chairman, said the meeting was meant to gather opinions on what role the [...]
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Robert Kennedy Items Removed From Police Exhibit
March 4, 2010 /ROBIN POGREBIN /nytimes.com
Evidence from the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles — including the bloody clothes he was wearing when he was shot — has been removed from an exhibition at a Las Vegas casino in response to objections from his family, his son Maxwell [...]
Ex-Mossad agent: Israel uses ‘false flag’ in most operations to avoid suspicion in Arab states.
Mossad ‘Regularly’ Faked Australian Passports
Global Research/Middle East Onlline
SYDNEY – Israel’s Mossad has regularly faked Australian passports for its spies, an ex-agent said on Thursday, as anger grew over the use of foreign travel documents for an alleged assassination.
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Dubai Hamas assassination: Police add suspects, say two alleged killers went to US
Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim told the Monitor that he believes that all but two of the Western suspects involved in the Dubai Hamas assassination are in Israel, and that the remainder have made their way to the US.
Christian Science Monitor/Carol Huang, Staff writer
Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim, who is leading the investigation [...]
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Pacific Region
Tsunami warning cancelled: Expert says Hawaii ‘dodged a bullet’
Initial predictions may have overestimated tsunami size
Experts say tsunami becoming more powerful as it hits
Chile
Chileans fearful of aftershocks camped outside on Sunday as rescuers battled to find survivors of a huge earthquake that shattered roads and airports and triggered a tsunami across the Pacific.
One of the [...]
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Dubai calls for Netanyahu prosecution over terror
PressTV
Dubai police say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be prosecuted should it be determined that the regime had been behind the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
FBI to probe American consular slayings in Mexico