CJ - Instablogs
Oct 28 2009
The very-much-alive British writer is referred to as “the late V.S Naipaul, a Nobel prize winning author” in the footnote of sworn testimony from an FBI agent. The error is included in documents filed at a court in Chicago for the trial of...
Oct 23 2009
Eric Williamson, from Springfield, Virginia, was brewing coffee in his kitchen when a woman and a seven-year-old boy walked past the window and saw him. The woman complained to police who arrested Williamson shortly after the incident on Monday...
Oct 15 2009
The United States spends about $3.6 billion a month in Afghanistan, according to data provided by the Congressional Research Service. The average cost per month is calculated at an average 51,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but that number likely will...
Oct 14 2009
More than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 900,000 displaced in eastern Congo by Rwandan Hutu militiamen and Congolese forces since January, humanitarian groups said Tuesday. The report released by a coalition of 84 organizations said that...
Oct 14 2009
George Davis — a former mayoral candidate known around the city as naked yoga guy –had pretty high ambitions for the second-annual Naked Olympics. Scheduled for Saturday, the competition was supposed to include barefoot races, ancient Greek...
Oct 8 2009
Pakistan’s powerful military rejected U.S. attempts to link billions of dollars in foreign aid to increased monitoring of its anti-terror efforts, complicating American attempts to strike al-Qaida and Taliban fighters on the Afghan...
Oct 7 2009
Iran has shut down three daily newspapers critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, according to reports by state-run news agencies. While no reason was given, the newspapers had been considered sympathetic towards those protesting over...
Oct 3 2009
A homeowner says a Phoenix police officer shot him six times in the back during a 911 home-invasion call, and the 911 tape recorded the officer’s partner saying, “That’s all right. Don’t worry about it. I got your back. ... We...
Oct 1 2009
The image of Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan-born bus driver from Denver and now a terror suspect, embodies the complex truths of where we are right now in the struggle against terrorism. Zazi, who pleaded not guilty in federal court here Tuesday...
Sep 30 2009
U.S. Gen. Ray Odierno is expected to tell the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee that there has been a significant drop in violence in Iraq recently, according to the statement obtained by CNN. President Obama has said the U.S. combat...