Russia seizes US arms cache in Georgia A Russian military spokesman says Russian forces have seized a large cache of US-made weapons in the western city of Senaki in Georgia. "In Senaki, we seized a large arsenal of weapons including 664 US-made M-16 rifles" and a number of M-40 sniper rifles, General Anatoly Nogovitsyn told a news conference in Moscow. "There were 1,728 weapons total," he added. Earlier on Wednesday, US President [sic] George W. Bush sent a C-17 airlifter to deliver 'humanitarian supplies' to Georgia.
A $100 billion bill Washington is headed toward another dismal milestone in Iraq. With more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers dead and a conflict that's outlasted World War II, now add a $100 billion bill for private contractors by year's end. The sum pays for a shadow military that provides security, builds bases and runs the chow line in mess halls. The 180,000 private employees, based in or around Iraq, match the number of American troops. The figure is a high-water mark in the annals of privatized fighting.
'Millennium bomber' sentence tossed out by U.S. court A federal appeals court Friday threw out the 22-year sentence imposed on Algerian Ahmed Ressam for plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the millennium. The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to U.S. District Court in Seattle to recalculate a sentence for his conviction on nine felony counts. It was the second time the appellate court has scrapped Ressam's sentence.
Bush protesters get $50,000 settlement from state of Iowa Two retired school teachers who said they were handcuffed and strip-searched during a 2004 campaign stop by President [sic] Bush in Cedar Rapids were awarded a $50,000 state judgment, records indicate. The State Appeal Board recently approved the out-of-court settlement for Alice McCabe and Christine Nelson, who brought a claim against the state Department of Public Safety after two state troopers arrested them at a rally at Noelridge Park in Cedar Rapids on Sept. 3, 2004.
Mich., Fla. could get full voting rights Last year, Michigan and Florida Democrats were being told they would lose all their votes at the Democratic National Convention if they moved up their presidential primaries. Now, the same committee that stripped Florida and Michigan of their delegates for violating party rules by holding early primaries is poised to suggest those delegates regain their full voting powers when the Denver convention starts in eight days.
Rep.: Half of House Dems may vote Hillary at DNC Rep. Loretta Sanchez says she’s happy for the chance to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic National Convention -- and she predicts that as many as half of the Democrats in the House could join her. On Friday, the Obama campaign confirmed that the floor vote in Denver will be conducted as a state-by-state roll call.
Corsi's claim that Obama posted "false, fake birth certificate" flatly rejected by Hawaii Health Department By M.G. & E.H.H. On Fox News, Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi claimed that the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama "has a false, fake birth certificate posted on their website." In fact, the Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed that the birth certificate posted online by the Obama campaign is "a valid Hawaii state birth certificate" and has called speculation about Obama's citizenship "pretty ridiculous."
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