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SAN JOSE, Calif. - (KRT) - Kathleen Namphy was dazed and bleeding. Her frightened interpreter called for help, and a group of hikers promised to stay with the 69-year-old retired Stanford lecturer as he ran down the snow-covered Iranian mountain. But when rescuers reached the spot near the summit of Mt. Damavand more than four hours later, Namphy - and the hikers - had vanished. Now hundreds of searchers, aided by Iranian Army helicopters, are scouring the three-mile high mountain near Tehran for any sign of the Palo Alto, Calif., woman. Namphy, a veteran hiker who scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro last...

Last week, renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh published an article claiming that the US was responsible for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline transporting natural gas to Germany from Russia. He spoke to Jacobin about the allegations.n September 26, 2022, the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany was largely destroyed by several explosions in the Baltic Sea. Last week, the award-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh published an article, based on information from a single anonymous source, arguing that the Biden administration and the CIA were responsible.Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for the role he...

NEW YORK For the second time in less than a week, The New York Times today admitted to a serious error in a story. On Saturday it said it had misidentified a man featured in the iconic "hooded inmate" photograph from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Today it discloses that a woman it profiled on March 8 is not, in fact, a victim of Hurricane Katrina--and was arrested for fraud and grand larceny yesterday. As it did in the Abu Ghraib mistake, the Times ran an editors' note on page 2 of its front section, along with a lengthy news...

A coalition of small leftist political groups today sued US President George W Bush and other American government officials for the abuses against prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The suit was filed at the Santiago Court of Appeals, which did not immediately decide whether it will accept to hear it. Filing the suit were the Communist Party, the Humanist Party and Leftist Revolutionary Movement. Also mentioned in the suit were Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former Iraq Administrator Paul Bremer. "We want Bush to be questioned when he...

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/2004/05/09/news/world/world02.asp As the human face of a deepening scandal involving the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by members of both the US and British armed forces, England, a former US prisons officer whose job in Iraq was to assign prisoners to cells, is the only soldier to be sent home. She has been reassigned to Fort Ashby, her home town in West Virginia, where she used to live in a trailer park. Given her humble roots, it's not surprising that many observers think of her as a backwoods bitch of war. But some of the locals in Fort Ashby think England...