Civilians Killed, Taliban Targeted

Isn't this always the case though? We have ample evidence that the Taliban are not above sheltering with civilians and mingling inside communities to use any such war dead as propaganda.

Posted by R. Dows in afghanistan, middle east, op-ed, terrorism 0 comments

N. America

Robber Uses Craigslist to Hire Decoys

In a move that could be right out of a Hollywood movie, a brazen crook apparently used a Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank on Tuesday. He then made his escape in an inner tube on the Skykomish River.

Oct 2, 2008 • Comments Comment

Steve Fossett’s Clothes Found?

Police said that the items, which include identification cards or documents bearing Fossett's name, clothes and cash, were found in a rugged, forested area near the town of Mammoth Lakes in the eastern Sierra Nevada.

Oct 1, 2008 • Comments Comment

McCain Links to Gambling?

Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around 2:30 a.m., the Arizona senator and his entourage emerged with thousands of dollars in winnings.

Sep 29, 2008 • Comments Comment

Bailout Plan Rejected by Congress

The House today rejected a $700-billion Wall Street bailout that would have been the biggest government intervention in the financial system since the Great Depression, sending the stock market into a sharp downturn and leaving President Bush's plan to bailout the economy in doubt.

Sep 29, 2008 • Comments Comment

$700 Billion Talks Collapse

The day began with an agreement that Washington hoped would end the financial crisis that has gripped the nation. It dissolved into a verbal brawl in the Cabinet Room of the White House, urgent warnings from the president and pleas from a Treasury secretary who knelt before the House speaker and appealed for her support.

Sep 26, 2008 • Comments Comment

Buffett Sinks $5Bn in Goldman Sachs

Warren Buffett to the rescue: His Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agreed today to invest $5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group via a purchase of preferred stock.

Sep 24, 2008 • Comments Comment

Europe

Swiss Bank UBS Cutting 2,000 Jobs

Swiss bank UBS has said it will cut 2,000 investment banking jobs and will reorganise the unit after being hard hit by sub-prime losses.

Oct 3, 2008 • Comments Comment

UK Bankers Say £50K Savers Guarantee Not Enough

Treasury under pressure to guarantee all deposits; UK banks say Ireland's move is unfair competition.

Oct 1, 2008 • Comments Comment

Bradford & Bingley to Cost UK Taxpayers $300Bn

British taxpayers will be liable for more than £150 billion of potentially toxic mortgage debt following the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley, one of the country’s biggest mortgage lenders.

Sep 28, 2008 • Comments Comment

German Police Capture Terroristst on Plane

German police seized two suspected terrorists from a Dutch passenger aircraft at Cologne airport Friday shortly before it was due to take off for Amsterdam, officials told CNN.

Sep 26, 2008 • Comments Comment

Russia to Ban Simpsons, Southpark

The move came as Russia's broadcast watchdog began hearings on whether or not to revoke the license of a cartoon network as punishment for transmitting episodes of South Park, The Simpsons and Family Guy.

Sep 24, 2008 • Comments Comment

9 Dead in Finnish School Shooting

A student who opened fire inside a vocational school in western Finland on Tuesday, killing nine students, was questioned by police and released a day before the massacre, Finland's interior minister said.

Sep 23, 2008 • Comments Comment

Politics

Bill Proposes End to US Coastal Drilling

House Democrats are preparing a stopgap spending measure that would eliminate a 26-year-old ban on coastal oil drilling, avoiding a showdown with Republicans over domestic energy production that could have shut down the government.

Sep 24, 2008 • Comments Comment

Technology

Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine?

Inventor Casey Jones says the £350 gadget uses ultrasound technology to recreate the effects of decades of ageing by colliding alcohol molecules inside the bottle.

Oct 3, 2008 • Comments Comment

Iran Confirms More Uranium Enrichment

Iran is now operating 4,000 centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant, a top official said Friday, moving the country's controversial nuclear program further out of the experimental stage and onto an industrial level.

Aug 29, 2008 • Comments Comment

Linux Under Siege from SSH-Key Attacks

The attack appears to rely on stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system and then uses a local kernel exploit to gain root access, whereupon it installs the "phalanx2" rootkit.

Aug 28, 2008 • Comments Comment

Hacker McKinnon Loses Appeal: Extradition Follows

Gary McKinnon, a computer expert who hacked into dozens of US military computers, lost his appeal to the today and faces extradition to the US in the next fortnight, his solicitor said.

Aug 28, 2008 • Comments Comment

Facebook Hits 100 Million Users

Fast growing social network Facebook has hit the mark, according to a statement today by Dave Morin, the company's Senior Platform Manager.

Aug 26, 2008 • Comments Comment

Solar Plane Breaks Unmanned Flight Record

An ultra-lightweight plane built from carbon fiber and powered using paper-thin solar panels has broken the world record for longest-lasting unmanned flight, its manufacturer claimed Sunday.

Aug 25, 2008 • Comments Comment