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...guard who first determined that the prisoner was no longer alive told CIA agents, "This guy's dead--it's on you." Another guard later said the agents "didn't know what the hell to do." A CIA employee reported being told by a colleague to "keep his mouth shut about the incident and not say anything about it in e-mail." When Abu Ghraib's military-intelligence commander showed up, a witness heard him say, "I'm not going down for this alone." To avoid roiling the other prisoners and prevent decomposition of the body, al-Jamadi's corpse...
...play up stories of wealthy Chinese getting kidnapped or killed. Last month, the Shanghai-based Xinmin Weekly ran a lengthy report on crimes against "moneybags" in the booming city of Wenzhou. It detailed the death of Lin Jing, a chemicals trader murdered by an employee who taped his eyes shut before garroting him with a rope. Other prominent abductees have included Chinese movie star Wu Ruofu and Jiang Yingwu, a regional manager of a popular chain of hot pot restaurants, who was killed by his kidnappers in 2004 even after they received a ransom...
...NORTHERN INVADERSSaturday seemed to provide the answer to the big question in the ECAC this season—has the balance of power shifted north?While Clarkson upset Harvard in Cambridge, fellow northerner St. Lawrence dominated Dartmouth for a 3-0 victory in Hanover.The Saints not only shut down the Big Green offense, but outshot their perennial rivals, 41-24. St. Lawrence converted on two of its eight powerplays for the game winning goal and the clincher to go up by three goals late in the second period. Overall, the Saints had a very balanced game, and held Dartmouth...
French prosecutors moved against the Internet last week in an effort to stop the street riots. They shut down blogs and arrested scribes for so-called moblogging, i.e., rallying rioters with incendiary language. Entries on SKYBLOG ranged from urging malcontents to "unite ... and burn the cops" to reasoning that "we have to be calm; if not, all of this will come to nothing." Across the Atlantic, bloggers were enraged and agog. BARKING MOONBAT EARLY WARNING SYSTEM deemed the assault on free speech the "Most Ridiculous Item of the Day," adding sarcastically, "I never realized we bloggers had this much power...
...last time Toad’s was cited for serving alcohol to minors, the club was fined and forced to shut down for a week...