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 In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.Disclosures of torture and long-term arbitrary detentions have won rebuke from leadin stanley cup g voices including the U.N. secretary-general and the U.S. Supreme Court. But the bitteres stanley uk t words come from inside the system, the size of several major U.S. penitentiaries. It was hard to believe I d get out,  Baghdad shopkeeper Amjad Qassim al-Aliyawi told The Associated Press after his release mdash; wi stanley quencher thout charge mdash; last month.  I lived with the Americans for one year and eight months as if I was living in hell. Captured on battlefields, pulled from beds at midnight, grabbed off streets as suspected insurgents, tens of thousands now have passed through U.S. detention, the vast majority in Iraq. Many say they were often interrogated around the clock, then released months or years later without apology, compensation or any word on why they were taken.Defenders of the system say it is an unfortunate necessity in the battles to pacify Iraq and Afghanistan, and to keep suspected terrorists out of action.        Every U.S. detainee in Iraq  is detained because he poses a security threat to the government of Iraq, the people of Iraq or coalition forces,  said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry, a spokesman for U.S.-led military detainee operations in  Prxs Yet Another Bat-Villain Is Coming To Gotham  8230; But With A Twist
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 AMELIA, Louisiana - What is believed to be the first death related to the flooding since the river s rising waters began affecting Mississippi and Louisiana was reported Thursday in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Walter Cook, 69, who drowned, died early Thursday at a hospital after being pulled from floodwaters Wednesday.Also, the threat of flooding prompted at least one school district in Louisiana to end the school year early. Students in Assumption Parish schools will not have to attend classes next week because the school board voted Wednesday to end the school year on Friday.The Army Corps of Engineers, desperate t stanley cup o save Baton Rouge and New Orleans from flooding, opened a spigot on a spillway over the weekend, intentionally flooding this stanley quencher  part of Cajun country, an area much less populated. But the cascade of water from the Morganza floodway is hampering the local oil industry and fishermen on the bayou.A tale of 2 cities along the Mississippi RiverPhotos: Mississippi River floodingMississippi reopensIn the oil-and-seafood hub of Morgan City, which has been hit by one disaster after another, from hurricanes to the BP oil spill, Harry Ribardi, a shrimper, was still waiting on the check BP promised to make up for his losses last year. Now he s facing another man-made disaster. This water is messing me up right now,  Ribardi, 68, said in a heavy Cajun-French accent.  Even if it don t flood me, it s going to shove the shrimp way offshore where it s hard to get them.         The Morg stanley cup a Sttu Dangling A Carrot To Drug Dealers
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 President Bush said Thursday he wants to devote nearly $38 bi stanley becher llion stanley uk  to preparing for and preventing domestic terror attacks, with special emphasis on bolstering the  first responders   151; police, firefighters and emergency medical teams. The first minutes or hours after an attack are the most hopeful minutes kubki stanley  for saving lives,  Mr. Bush said.  We ve got to remember the role of the first responders. It became vivid, obviously, on Sept. 11. In a speech to mayors, Mr. Bush proposed $37.7 billion for homeland security in his fiscal 2003 budget plan, with $3.5 billion  151;  a 1,000 percent increase,  he said  151; going to state and local emergency responders. The overall domestic security budget would almost double from $19.5 billion.The president said the money represents the start of a focus on domestic defense that will last throughout his presidency.  What the American people expect is a determined, relentless effort. That s exactly how we re going to behave,  he said.Homeland security director Tom Ridge has expanded the government s efforts to avert terror and better prepare for an attack on U.S. soil, but much of that work is invisible to Americans. He has issued three general terror alerts, with no specifics and simultaneous urgings that citizens carry on normal routines.        On Wednesday, Mr. Bush proposed the biggest increase in military spending in 20 years, nearly $50 billion more next year, and said America  will not cut corners  in the war against terrorism. I Zbol This Interactive Site Shows MLK   s Mastery As A Public Speaker
 A dumping ground for nuclear waste located near the British coast is virtually certain to be washed away by rising sea levels, a new report warns. The UK Environment Agency has admitted that constructing the Drigg Low-Level Waste Repository so near the coast was a mistake, and that one million cubic meters of nuclear waste will begin leaking into the ocean a few hundred to a few thousand years from now.     Sounds bad  Pay no attention, then, to current plans to increase the site   capacity by ano starbucks stanley cup ther 800,000 cubic meters over the next century, adding new waste that will include radioactive debris from Britain   nuclear power stations, nuclear submarines, nuclear weapons, hospitals and universities, the Guardian reports. It   interesting to note that, while the site officially contains only low-level waste, there is suspicion that higher-level wastes with correspondingly higher levels of radioactivity could have been dumped there in the past. Recall the incredible tale of Sellafield nuclear power station鈥攖he site from which much of the waste now stored at Drigg origina stanley en mexico tes鈥攚here records of previous dumping had been thrown away or lost. This led to the terrifying need to advertise in the local newspaper, saying: We need your help. Why  Because they had no idea what was buried there. Did you vaso stanley  work at Sellafield in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s  the ad asked with false calm. Were you by chan

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 A television reporter in Baltimore was reportedly fired over a doctored YouTube video in which a phrase describing an escaped monkey s scrotum was spliced into a comment about U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.A video from a Fox News TV broadcast was altered to make it appear that Fox personality John Gibson said he would be disc stanley canada ussing Holder and his scrotum. The altered video combined an innocuous comment about Holder with a separate snippet referring to an escaped monkey that was identifiable by its  bright blue scrotum. WBAL-TV, an NBC affiliate owned by Hearst-Argyle Television Inc., issued a statement Tuesday saying a former employee posted the video on Google s YouTube site without the knowledge of the station. WBAL wouldn t name the employee or discuss the employee s departure.But Fox News, The  Baltimore  Sun and other media outlets said it was one of the station s reporters who posted the video, and that he was fired.In the original broadcast, one Fox commentator makes a reference to the story about the monkey - and its brightly colored body part - right before the camera cuts to Gibson. Gibson then said he would be discussing Holder and comments he made later in the show.        In the doctored version, Gibso stanley quencher n is heard saying,  we re talking about Eric Holder today ... and his,  before someone had spliced in the separate snippet of the other  stanley cup commentator using the phrase  bright blue scrotum.  The effect is that the reference to Holder appears to flow seamlessly to t Qnms New figures show sexual assault in the U.S. military is on the rise
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 FBI Director Louis Freeh, who was appointed by President Clinton in 1993 and who often clashed with the Clinton White House, said Tuesday he will be leaving his job in June.Freeh, who has a 10-year term lasting until 2003 as head of the federal law enforcement agency, told FBI employees in a letter he would be retiring in June  at the end of the school year,  after a 27-year career in government.The FBI director, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, serves a 10-year term to minimize the role of politics in the jo stanley usa b. President Bush had asked Freeh, a former federal prosecutor and federal judge in New York City, to stanley cup  remain as FBI chief. It did catch me by surprise, and I m disappointed.  I was hoping that he would stay on,  Bush said.  I think he s done a very good job.         Mr. Bush was not stanley cup  alone in praising the outgoing FBI Director.Attorney General John Ashcroft called Freeh  a model law enforcement officer.   In a statement, Ashcroft went on to say,  His commitment to excellence has enriched the FBI s heritage of thorough professionalism.   Home FreehClick here to read Louis Freeh s announcement of his departure.In his statement, the 51-year-old Freeh thanked Mr. Bush for his  unwavering support of me and the FBI. He listed many accomplishments achieved at the bureau since then, including hiring several thousand new special agents, forging a relationship with the CIA, doubling the FBI s overseas presence and a bigger budget for crime-fighting.In a recent Svky Ex-wife feared Seal Beach suspect as unbalanced
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 A driver accused of shooting an 11-year-old boy to death during a roadside argument with the child s stepfather was arrested while on the run in Virginia, police said.Robert Lee Vincent, 65, was arrested Sunday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Kenneth Anderson. The boy was shot late Thursday as he tried to intervene in the argument that began with words exchanged outside a c stanley us onvenience store, authorities said. He died Friday at a hospital.Vincent, of Garysburg, was being held in a Greenville County, Va., jail and was scheduled to be extradited to North Carolina later Monday, said sheriff s Capt. Daryl Harmon.Investigators believe the man was firing at the stepfather and that the two men didn t know each other.The incident began when Kenneth, his mother and stepfather were leaving a convenience store west of Gaston, about 90 miles northeast of Raleigh, authorities said.        The stepfath stanley cups er exchanged words with another driver  stanley cups uk whose vehicle was sitting at the store s exit, making a comment on the other man s failure to use a turn signal, Harmon said.Later, as the boy s family drove home, the other vehicle pulled behind them, and the men again exchanged words, authorities said.The boy s mother got out of the car, apparently trying to quell the situation. Harmon said Kenneth was shot in the forehead when he got out to try to talk his mother into getting back into the car with him.Kenneth was taken to a hospital in Greenville, where he died Friday afternoon.    Aawb Senate To OK Credit  Reporting Act
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 PANAMA CITY, Fla. Jurors have found a Florida Panhandle man guilty of manslaughter after his 7-year-old neighbor was mauled by his dogs.It took the jury about two hours Thursday to return the verdict against Edward Daniels.The News Herald of Panama City reports jurors found that Daniels neglected to contain his dogs on the day they got loose. He was found not guilty of tampering with evidence for washing blood from one of the dogs after the attack.Daniels testified he didn t know what had happened when he washed Tyler s blood off that day, the newspaper says, adding,  He d heard a gunshot mome stanley cups uk nts earlier and believed one of his neighbors had followed through on a threat to kill his dogs, so he washed away the blood looking for injuries. Only later did he learn what Fat Boy and M.J. had done. The paper quotes Daniels as saying,  I felt bad. I was surprised by it. I didn t think my dogs would do something like that.         But, the newspaper reports,  His neighbors said they d warned him so ofte stanley bottle n that he should have known, and the jury agreed. Tyler Jett died in April, a week after he was attacked by two dogs while riding his bicycle.Daniels, who has no previous criminal history, faces 15 years in prison when he s sentenced on Oct. 14.                                                    stanley cup                    ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-089be7da-3598-11e3-8ce8-047d7b15b92e,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-089b Hhdb Online Supporters of Al Qaeda Form Media Committees Named After 9/11 Hijackers
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 Venezuela has become the focal point of the nasty battle between Ford and Firestone over what caused a series of fatal accidents in the United States and abroad.Venezuela is seriously considering banning the Ford Explorer. A final decision may come within two months, reports CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.Samuel Ruh, who has investigated Explorer accidents for Venezuela s government, recommended the ban. He tells CBS News that Explorer accidents there have continued in alarming numbers even after all the Fi stanley cup restone tires were replaced last year.  The stanley cup  trucks keep flipping over,  Ruh said.By his count, there have now been 84 Explorer accidents since last November on non-Firestone tires, killing at least 23 people.         No other vehicle in Venezuela has that percentage of accidents,  he claims.Click here to learn more about how tires work.Facing the possibi stanley water bottle lity of an entire country banning the sale of Explorers, Ford launched an all-out campaign to exonerate its popular SUV, saying the Venezuelan s list is full of flaws. Brigestone Firestone in this country has tossed out these numbers as factual to cast blame that this is a vehicle issue, not a tire issue,  said Ford s Jason Vines in mid-June.Ford says six of the accidents on Venezuela s list were mere fender-benders, two were double-counted and three involved other Ford vehicles, not Explorers.And Ford CEO Jacques Nasser told Congress last month that the Explorer is safer than its competitors in Venezuela, accountin Rfud Ecuador: Decision on Edward Snowden asylum could take months
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 A glaring lack of racial and cultural diversity among teachers is hurting the chances of success for minority students, a coalition of school groups contends.A small but growing body of research shows minorities tend to do better in class and face higher expectations when taught by teachers from their racial or ethnic group, says the National Collaborative on Diversity in the Teaching Force, a partnership led by six groups. Teachers of color  often serve as role models and cultural brokers who help students connect to their school through shared identities, group leaders say.In both the recruitment of teachers and the training of veteran ones, the coalition is calling on policy-makers to put a priority on diversity and  cultural competence,  meaning the ability of teachers to understand their st stanley canada udents  culture and incorporate it in class.Some big groups are behind the push, including the National Education Association, the country s largest teachers union; the American Council on Education, representing the nation s colleges and universities; and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the primary voice for the schools charged with preparing teachers for work.        About 60 percent of public school students are white, 17 percent are  stanley quencher black and 17 percent  stanley tumblers are Hispanic. Yet 90 percent of teachers are white, 6 percent are black and less than 5 percent are of another race or ethnicity, according to federal figures the coalition cited.Roughly 40 percent of sch Sohz How the New Nexus 7 Stacks Up to the Competition
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