Keyword: uncovers
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Pelosi Logged 43 Flights Covering 90,155 Miles from January to October 2010 Received "Chocolate-Covered Strawberries" for Birthday Surprise WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained new documents from the United States Air Force detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's use of United States Air Force aircraft in 2010. According to the documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Pelosi used Air Force aircraft for 43 flights from January 1 to October 1, 2010. According to documents previously uncovered by Judicial Watch, by...
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2005 – A routine patrol yielded significant results Nov. 27 when Task Force Baghdad soldiers discovered terrorists' weapons and bomb-making materials and detained four suspects in the Abu Ghraib district of western Baghdad, military officials reported. Soldiers from B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, were traveling through an area known for attacks with improvised explosive devices when they saw something suspicious in a chicken coop behind a farmhouse. They discovered what first appeared to be unexploded ordnance buried in the ground but slightly exposed on the surface. Explosive experts were called in and they destroyed...
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GENEVA (AP) - U.N. human rights investigators said Thursday they had reliable accounts of detainees being tortured at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the United States had not responded to repeated requests to check conditions there. "The time is up," one investigator said. The four independent specialists told reporters that U.N. experts had made numerous requests since early 2002 to check on the conditions of terror suspects at the U.S. Naval base in Cuba, as well as at U.S. facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. They cited "information, from reliable sources, of serious allegations of torture, cruel,...
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When Pierre Rehov saw images of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy being shot, it altered the course of his life. The film producer was stunned to learn Israel had been accused of targeting young Mohammed al-Dura, whose gripping death in the arms of his father was an image broadcast around the world. Indeed, the graphic images of the boy dying in his father Jamal's arms, supposedly murdered by Israeli soldiers, became the icon of the newly launched intifada and fueled the ambitions of a thousand young, would-be suicide bombers. "I was in shock," Rehov said in a recent magazine interview. "In...
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<p>TAMPA -- While their wives drove Rolls-Royces and moved among Tampa's elite, Douglas S. Cone and Donald Carlson always seemed busy with business.</p>
<p>Cone, the 74-year-old millionaire owner of a Tampa highway construction company, was gone most weekdays.</p>
<p>Carlson was also frequently away from home -- an absence his family attributed to a sensitive government job that required him to travel for long stretches.</p>
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China uncovers lost part of Wall China has announced the discovery of a lost section of the Great Wall which was hidden for centuries beneath shifting sands. The segment was found in the north-western region of Ningxia which was crucial to imperial China's border defences, the state news agency Xinhua reports. It stretches some 80 kilometres (50 miles) along the southern slope of Helan Mountain, about 40 km (25 m) from the Ningxia provincial capital, Yinchuan. Other sections of the vast wall - a Chinese and world heritage monument - have been uncovered in the past in remote parts of...
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Monday, 10 June, 2002, 23:22 GMT 00:22 UK Morocco 'uncovers al-Qaeda plot' Reports from Morocco say three Saudi members of al-Qaeda have been arrested as they prepared attacks on American and British naval ships in the Straits of Gibraltar. There has been no formal announcement from the Moroccan authorities, but officials are quoted as saying the three had been arrested in May with the help of the intelligence services of several friendly countries. The names of the detainees were not released. The men, aged between 25 and 35, are reported to have links to the al-Qaeda, the organisation suspected of...
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