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I orginally wrote this as Friday's radio spot script, but I personally like it as a read, so here's both. Last year, I got in trouble with YouTube for trying to air one of my television show segments that included the videotaped beheading of an American captured by Iraqi insurgents. That video was aired all around the Islamic world, yet was kept off our televisions because that was considered “inappropriate content”. They figured we just couldn’t handle the truth. Earlier this week, I read a story in the UK Sun; a story that we have yet to hear in America....

Deliberately targeting civilians is widely considered terrorism nowadays, but during World War II both the Britain’s Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Force deliberately targeted civilians. The British philosopher A. C. Grayling, in his new book Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan (Walker, $25.95), points out that the two air forces combined killed perhaps 600,000 German civilians and another 200,000 Japanese. He makes the case that at least by our current standards we were terrorists, and it logically follows that the attacks were war crimes....

Complexity of war crimes case against ex-Yugoslav president convinced Iraqi prosecutors to condense Saddam charges THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Three years and eight months into the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, the courtroom still crackles with explosive outbursts. ...The prosecution of Mr. Milosevic and 125 other people by the 12-year-old tribunal is creating a body of law that many legal experts say will serve as a guide for future war crimes tribunals worldwide. Iraqi judges and officials from war crimes tribunals newly established in Africa and the Balkans have consulted court officials recently.

Jan. 13, 2005 23:01 | Updated Jan. 14, 2005 0:05 Two Israelis killed in bomb attack at Karni crossing By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH Emergency teams rush to scene of the explosion at the Karni crossing. A double suicide bomb attack at the Karni commercial crossing in northern Gaza left five dead and at least 10 wounded late Thursday night. According to initial reports, two suicide bombers infiltrated the area and blew up simultaneously on the Israeli side of the crossing. Shortly after the massive explosion, gun battles erupted between security forces and Palestinian gunmen. The two suicide bombers were counted in...

Germany asks will Queen say sorry? Fri 29 October, 2004 05:44 By Alexandra Hudson BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans are waiting to see how the Queen refers to Britain's 1945 bombing of Dresden when she visits next week, now that they are speaking more of their own war-time suffering and breaking a long-standing taboo. Just days ahead of the Queen's first visit since 2000, a row has erupted in the British and German press over whether the air raids were justified and whether the monarch should apologise. Dresden was devastated in a firestorm which killed some 35,000 people just three months...

A federal court acquitted five men of charges of being accessories to the July 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center here, the deadliest terrorist attack on Argentine soil, which claimed 85 lives and injured some 300 people. In a nationally televised verdict, a three-judge panel cleared four former provincial police officers and a former used car salesman accused of supplying the van used in the attack. Judge Miguel Pons read the long-awaited verdict, which cleared the suspects of all major charges after a nearly three-year-long trial - the longest in Argentine history. A handful of representatives from the Jewish...

<p>MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spanish voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a new government amid controversy over the timing of the election in the wake of Thursday's terror attacks.</p> <p>Polling booths open at 0800 GMT (0300 ET) with candidates competing for seats in the nation's lower and upper houses of parliament.</p>

The death toll from Tuesday s Jerusalem bus bombing rose to 21 Saturday, after 70-year-old Rachel Weiss succumbed to her serious wounds and died in the hospital. At least six of the fatalities in the attack were children. The Hamas bombing was the most lethal attack in Jerusalem since the outbreak of violence 35 months ago. Many viewed the attack as a barbaric atrocity on Jews and not as an act of nationalism against Israel. Many of those murdered were ultra-Orthodox Jews who do not believe in a Jewish state or in Zionism. Even worse, it was not as if...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/11/02 - Tel Aviv, Wazzani, Kabul, Kandahar, Baghdad, al-Nassir BREAKING: Tel Aviv, Bus driver quenches impact of terror bombing, BREAKING: Diversion of the Wazzani, Kabul, Kandahar, Baghdad, al-Nassir, Arnaout, ========= Kabul ========= In Kabul, at the food lines, women receive 110 pounds of wheat, 20 pounds of dried peas, ten pounds of oil, and one packet of salt per family per month. In Kabul, near the food lines, women FREED BY THE USA attend a health class,. In Kabul, at the wedding. Two girls married their cousins in a joint ceremony as...

Posted on Sun, May. 12, 2002 Judith Hayman Greenbaum's childhood passions were painting ceramics and swimming at the beach. Fortunately, her grandfather, who lived nearby and was an avid swimmer, often took her to the Santa Monica Beach, not far from their home in Los Angeles. An only child, Judith was her parents' hope and dream. They gave her everything she needed to succeed: a great education and tremendous love, the tools to develop her talents and the confidence to express her soul. After high school, she decided to become an elementary school teacher. Her parents saw it as the...