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WASHINGTON (AFP) – As of October 2006 US forces had still not secured all of the unguarded munition sites in Iraq, allowing thieves to keep stealing war material and stoke the country’s violence, the General Accounting Office reported. “The widespread looting occurred because DOD (the Department of Defense) had insufficient troop levels to...
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WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is setting up its new HQ in a former lunatic asylum. The $3 billion move will begin in 2011, according to a plan prepared by the DHS, once a new building is ready in the grounds of the former mental hospital, St. Elizabeth’s....
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• Cub was ignored by mother, so zookeepers raised him themselves • Activist: “Feeding by hand is … gross violation of animal protection laws” • Bear’s story sparks controversy among politicians, animal activists BERLIN, Germany (AP) — Berlin Zoo’s abandoned polar...
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Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney in Chicago who recently led the successful prosecution of I. Lewis Libby Jr., who was a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, was on a list of prosecutors whose performance was ranked as “not distinguished” on a list Mr. Sampson sent to the White House in...
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Police cited Broward Circuit Judge Lawrence Korda — one of two who made decisions recently in the Anna Nicole Smith case — for smoking marijuana in a park Sunday afternoon, a police spokesman said on Monday. Go to original
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