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CNN's "American Morning" host Soledad O'Brien said Tuesday that Hurricane Katrina evacuees housed at the Superdome were worse off than beheading victims in Baghdad. The normally mild-mannered newswoman offered the overwrought observation while speaking at Redbook Magazine's "Movers and Shakers" awards luncheon in New York. According to the New York Daily News, O'Brien blurted out: "It is a sad thing to watch military veterans cry as they tell you the beheadings in Baghdad were less horrific than what they saw as 30,000 people marched from the Superdome through a shopping mall and onto buses to who knows where." Ms. O'Brien...

Alexandria, VA, August 13, 2004 On August 11, two NBC reporters posing as foreign businessmen attempted to charter a helicopter at Fostaire Helicopters, a member of the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) and a Part 135 operator based at St. Louis Downtown Airport, in Sauget, IL.“We got a call from a prospective customer asking about a scenic flight,” said Clarke Thomas, president of Fostaire Helicopters. “They wanted to know how close they could get to the St Louis landmarks and they said price was no object. That raised a red flag right away because any businessman is always concerned with...