Articles from 'March 2009'
Is This The Best That We Can Do? ...by Dan DeWalt, Charlotte Dennett, John Nirenberg and Martha Hennessy
On March 30, Senator Patrick Leahy gave five Vermonters a half hour of his time. We were: Martha Hennessy, a peace activist from Weathersfield, John ...
Why We Must Fix Our Prisons ...by Senator Jim Webb
Parade Drug offenders, most of them passive users or minor dealers, are swamping our prisons. According to data supplied to Congress' Joint Economic Committee, those ...
Webb Crime Bill Gets Unlikely Support
By Ryan Grim / Huffington Post Jim Webb stepped firmly on a political third rail last week when he introduced a bill to examine sweeping ...
Afghan leader accused of bid to 'legalise rape'
UN and women MPs say Karzai bowed to Islamic fundamentalists before poll By Jerome Starkey / Independent Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, has signed a law ...
US mil: Marine dies in non-combat incident in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military says an American Marine has died as the result of a non-combat related incident in Iraq. A statement says ...
Obama team drops "war on terror" rhetoric
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday the Obama administration had dropped "war on terror" from its lexicon, rhetoric ...
Wagoner's exit puts BofA CEO Lewis in hotseat
By Elinor Comlay NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis may be the next corporate boss to feel the heat ...
Freed Iraqi detainee vows to keep fighting Americans
By Leila Fadel / McClatchy Newspapers "Are my people aware of what's happening to me? "Ask the river, does it still remember me? "And the ...
Israeli military rejects tales of Gaza killings
JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli military on Monday closed an investigation into soldiers' accounts of the killing of civilians during the war in Gaza, calling ...
US soldier jailed on Iraq murders
BBCA US soldier has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for murdering four Iraqi detainees in 2007. Sgt Joseph Mayo, 27, was earlier convicted ...
Trainers killed by Afghan soldier identified
Stars and Stripes The U.S. military has identified two trainers killed Friday by an Afghan National Army soldier. Lt. Florence B. Choe, 35, of El ...
U.S. Pushes Afghan Plan In The Hague This Week
By Marc Champion / Wall Street Journal After unveiling its strategy review for Afghanistan, the U.S. administration this week starts selling it in earnest to ...
Obama may find Europe reticent on some US goals
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's first European trip could dampen his hopes that a new diplomatic style will convert once-reluctant allies into cooperative global ...
Mystery surrounds post-Katrina death, and some point to involvement of NOPD officers
By Laura Maggi / New Orleans Times-Picayune More than three years after Henry Glover died in the days following Hurricane Katrina, investigators for the New ...
Fear keeps Baghdad divided and warring sects apart; few Sunnis dare return
BAGHDAD (AP) — The streets are calmer now. The fighting between Shiites and Sunnis has largely ceased. But this is not a sign of normalcy ...
In Iraq, Two Key U.S. Allies Face Off
Government Riles Sunni Awakening By Sudarsan Raghavan and Anthony Shadid / Washington Post BAGHDAD, March 29 -- A new and potentially worrisome fight for power ...
Bank Regulator on Leave Pending Inquiry
Inspector General Says OTS Allowed False Statements By Binyamin Appelbaum / Washington Post One of the nation's chief bank regulators has been placed on leave ...
Statement from Michael Moore on Departure of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner
For immediate release: "I have never heard of such a thing in all my days: The main representative of the people ordering a corporate chieftain ...
GM CEO resigns at Obama's behest
By Mike Allen / Politico The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed, a ...
Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots
Waterboarding, Rough Interrogation of Abu Zubaida Produced False Leads, Officials Say By Peter Finn and Joby Warrick / Washington Post When CIA officials subjected their ...
Ex-State Dept. lawyer decries torture after 9/11
By Andrew O. Selsky SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former State Department lawyer responsible for Guantanamo-related cases said Friday that the Bush administration ...
Obama Announces Plans for More Funding for Afghan War
4,000 Additional Troops to Deploy By Karen DeYoung / Washington Post President Obama this morning announced a new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy that will require significantly higher ...
Sources: Obama to add US troops in Afghanistan
By Anne Gearan and Pamela Hess / Associated Press WASHINGTON – Concerned about the faltering war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands ...
10th Division soldier dies in Afghanistan incident
Watertown Daily Times FORT DRUM — A 10th Mountain Division soldier in Afghanistan died March 22 from non-combat-related injuries. Pfc. Adam J. Hardt, 19, was ...
Manchester Mourns Loss Of Marine
By Peg Rusconi MANCHESTER (WBZ) -- Trained as an infantryman, Marine Corporal Michael Ouellette served two tours in Iraq before being sent to Afghanistan in ...
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