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The SEALs took down Ahmed Hasim Abed, the alleged mastermind of a ghastly 2004 incident in which four American contractors who worked security for Blackwater USA, were murdered in Fallujah and two of the bodies were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River. But instead of being praised as heroes, the SEALs are all facing charges and have hired lawyers, FoxNews.com reported.

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - A teenager was injured when U.S. border patrol agents fired tear gas into Mexico over the weekend, despite a Mexican government complaint that U.S. agents were using excessive force. Fifteen-year-old Cristian Saldana was hit in the nose by a tear gas canister on Saturday after he threw stones at border patrol agents trying to stop people from illegally crossing into the United States, witnesses said. The teenager required stitches at a local hospital. Mexico's government criticized the U.S. border patrol for using excessive force after border patrol agents fired tear gas in another incident on Friday....

'He really abused me,' resident says after arrest by Orem police officer OREM - Two days after Independence Day, 70-year-old Betty Perry experienced an ordeal she said shouldn't be happening in America. The retired military and U.S. government employee answered the door at her home Friday morning to talk with a police officer about her bone-dry lawn and ended up getting arrested and suffering a bloody nose. "What have I done?" she asked. "I'm old now. I can't believe this." The Orem police officer, as yet unnamed by city officials, cited Perry for violating a city ordinance with her "sadly...

CLEVELAND -- A former employee with AIDS who is seeking millions of dollars in damages from McDonald's quit because he felt victimized by discrimination, his attorney said in opening statements Wednesday. The burger chain said the man refused a new position and resigned. "Discrimination has put him in that position," Paige Martin told a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court jury in the case by Russell Rich, 41, of Akron, against McDonald's Corp. She outlined a series of Rich's lower-paying jobs without health insurance since he quit in 1997. The burger chain "destroyed his life" and destroyed a professional identity formed...