Jamal al-Harith told how US soldiers brought in prostitutes to the camp, and paraded them naked in front of the many devout Muslims. The 37-year-old also claimed he was kicked, punched and assaulted with batons.

Zimbabwe said 67 presumed mercenaries arrested after the seizure of a suspect plane could face the death penalty, charging they were due to join coup plotters in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in a conspiracy backed by Britain, Spain and the United States.

But under a contentious provision of federal law, tens of thousands of would-be college students have been denied financial aid because of drug offenses, even though the crimes may have been committed long ago and the sentences already served

So, my question is, do we stand for the liberty of all people? Or just Americans -- that is white Americans, I mean white male Americans, straight ones anyway?
Australia's F-18 pilots refused to drop their bombs in dozens of missions during the Iraq War, one of the pilots has revealed.
The pilot said each of the 14 RAAF F-18 Hornet pilots aborted three to four missions during the war, often because intelligence given at pre-flight briefings did not concur with what they found at the target.

The government's longtime chief analyst of Medicare costs said yesterday that Bush administration officials threatened to fire him last year if he disclosed to Congress that he believed the prescription drug legislation favored by the White House would prove far more expensive than lawmakers had been told.
In late January, the White House said calculations provided by Foster, indicated the law would cost $534 billion. That provoked an outcry from Democrats and conservative Republicans concerned that the drug benefits would deepen the federal deficit.
Internal documents and federal officials made clear that the White House had known of the higher cost estimates for months.