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A woman was to be breathing when she was delivered to the O.B. Davis Funeral Home in Miller Place. Photo Credit: Google Maps street view A woman who was breathing and alive was delivered to a New York funeral home after being pronounced dead at an area rehabilitation and nursing center. The incident took place on Long Island after the 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at 11:15 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at Waters Edge Rehab and Nursing Center in Port Jefferson, the Suffolk County Police said. The woman was transported to the O.B. Davis Funeral Home in Miller Place...

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The United States tortures prisoners, former President Carter charged on Wednesday. "I don't think it. I know it," Carter told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview. "Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights," Carter said. "We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they are accused." Carter also criticized President Bush's recent declaration: "This government does not torture people." "That's not...

For IMMEDIATE Release Hyde Comments on Democratic Attack on the President’s Foreign Policy (WASHINGTON) - U.S. Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-IL), Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations, released the following statement after Democratic lawmakers and former Carter and Clinton administration officials criticized President Bush’s policies in the Middle East: It strains the limit of humor to hear the foreign policy elite of the Democratic Party attempt to blame George W. Bush for enabling Iran to become a global menace. For it was a Democratic President, Jimmy Carter, who presided over the seizure of power in Tehran by Ayatollah...

The former US president Jimmy Carter has described Israel's "colonisation of Palestine" through expanding Jewish settlements as the single greatest obstacle to a resolution of the conflict. Mr Carter, 81, who negotiated the 1978 Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt, wrote in the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz yesterday that Israel's actions doom any Palestinian state to a "dismal" future and will perpetuate violence across the Middle East. "The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonisation of Palestine," he wrote. "Israel's occupation of Palestine has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had...

SEATTLE -- Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the war in Iraq on Wednesday, urging a troop drawdown as the United States enters its fourth year of conflict in Iraq. "It was a completely unnecessary war. It was an unjust war," said Carter, the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner. "It was initiated on the basis of false pretenses. All of those are true, but we can't just pre-emptively withdraw."

ACTOR and political activist Jane Fonda says coalition forces should leave Iraq and has labelled the conflict "disgusting" and "despicable". Fonda, once dubbed Hanoi Jane for her opposition to America's role in the Vietnam War, said too many lives were being lost after an invasion of Iraq that was based on lies. "I think it is a crime, a tragedy, disgusting and despicable," Fonda said in Sydney. "It is almost beyond comprehension how we could have been brought into this war based on lies and continue to lose so many lives, both American and Iraqi. "It makes my skin crawl...

The adage that "politics stops at the water's edge" has apparently long since been laid to rest. At the least, we need a new adage counseling American politicians not to defame their country or grovel before the potentates of the homeland of many of America's enemies. Yesterday former Vice President Gore spoke before a "mainly Saudi audience" on day two of the Jeddah Economic Forum: "Gore laments U.S. abuses against Arabs." The AP reports: Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001,...

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair's rating as a leader has soared since the London bombings, even though a big majority of voters believes his decision to go to war in Iraq has increased the risk of terrorist attacks at home. In a Populus poll for The Times, taken at the weekend after Thursday's second wave of abortive attacks, Mr Blair's leader rating is his second-highest yet, while almost a third of all voters believe he should reconsider his decision to stand down as Prime Minister before the next election. This boost to Mr Blair's ratings occurred even though 64per cent...