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  • U.S. Journalists Narrowly Escape Iraq Car Bomb

    12/01/2008 3:31:41 PM PST · by forkinsocket · 7 replies · 654+ views
    RFE/RL ^ | December 01, 2008 | Staff
    A team of journalists working for U.S. media company National Public Radio (NPR) narrowly escaped a car bombing in Baghdad after Iraqi soldiers warned them a device had been attached to the bottom of their armored car, NPR said. NPR correspondent Ivan Watson, Iraqi producer and translator Ali Hamdani, and two Iraqi drivers who did not want to be named had stopped on November 30 to conduct interviews in a kebab shop, a few yards from an Iraqi Army checkpoint, NPR said. They spent around 45 minutes interviewing people and eating lunch in Rabiye Street, once a major shopping area...
  • Sask. Town Wants Its $10,000 Ttsunami Donation Back

    01/29/2005 1:58:17 PM PST · by Dallas59 · 13 replies · 698+ views
    CBC ^ | 1/29/05 | CBC News
    MEADOW LAKE, SASK. - The Canadian Red Cross will return a $10,000 tsunami relief donation to a northern Saskatchewan town after its council said the motion to approve the expenditure passed accidentally.