Analysts say next financial crisis could come from cost of battling this one.
Bush Sending Rice To India
Iraq contractors worriedUS companies, workers face actual liability for their actions, fear grim future.
SecDef calls for Congress to mandate that Guard, Reserves have lead in DoD homeland ops --Gates: Active force, reserves must integrate Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took a giant step Monday toward more tightly blending the active-duty military and reserve components into an "integrated total force," calling for wide-ranging personnel policy changes, codifying the reserves’ homeland defense role and adequately funding oft-overlooked reserve equipment requirements... Gates also called upon Congress to "mandate that the National Guard and Reserves have the lead role in and form the backbone of DoD operations in the homeland." Congress, the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves it chartered and the Pentagon, Gates wrote in his 41-page memo, "all recognize that the National Guard and the Reserves are integral to the Total Force and have assumed a greater operational role in today’s force."
'No regrets': Captured terrorist's account of Mumbai massacre reveals plan was to kill 5,000 During two days of questioning, Kashmiri-born Azam Amir Kasav, who used the alias Ajmal Kasab, told police: 'I have no regrets'. He is said to have told officers the cell was to seek out 'white targets, preferably British and American'. Kasav revealed that the ten terrorists, who were highly trained in marine assault and crept into the city by boat, had planned to blow up the Taj Mahal Palace hotel after first executing British and American tourists and then taking hostages. He then added that their intention was to kill 5,000 people.
Indian security chief resigns over Mumbai attacks The fallout from a three-day rampage that killed nearly 200 people in Mumbai threatened on Sunday to unravel India's improving ties with Pakistan and prompted the resignation of India's security minister [Home Minister Shivraj Patil].
Iraqi court orders U.S. to free journalist An Iraqi court on Sunday ordered the release of a freelance photographer working for Reuters news agency who has been held by U.S. forces since early September. The Iraqi Central Criminal Court ruled there was no evidence against Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed, and ordered that the U.S. military release him from Camp Cropper prison near Baghdad airport.
Evidence suggests CIA funded experiments at state hospital Vermont doctor, Robert W. Hyde, was involved in one of the nation’s darkest chapters in medical science: In the 1950s, Hyde conducted drug and psychological experiments at a Boston hospital through funding that apparently originated with the CIA. Later, he became director of research at the Vermont State Hospital... In addition to patient Karen Wetmore's claim, new evidence, though incomplete, suggests that such tests might have been conducted at the Vermont State Hospital.
Obama criticised for economic team's link to failed bank chief --Presidential advisers are protégés of director of Citigroup, the bank accused of reckless sub-prime investments that led to its near-collapse The first notes of dissent over the President-elect's choices are being heard across America. The loudest complaints concern his economic team's ties to Citigroup, the banking behemoth that all but collapsed last weekend. In particular, criticisms are mounting over the role to be played by Robert Rubin, a director at Citigroup and President Clinton's former treasury secretary.
Credit-Card Fees Targeted by Retailers Who Say Banks Overcharge The subprime mortgage crisis is giving department and convenience stores and gas stations a new argument in asking Congress for power to negotiate the fees banks charge them to process credit-card transactions. Retailers such as Target Corp. say banks make so much money from the fees that they give credit cards to people who can’t pay their debts, just as they provided mortgages to homeowners who can’t afford them.
UFO enthusiasts call on Obama to release XFiles — UFO enthusiasts are pressing Barack Obama to release classified documents about sightings of alien spacecraft, encouraged by support from within the President-Elect's own White House team. — Desperate to see the US emulate the British Government …
Laura Bush describes post-White House plans — (CNN) — First lady Laura Bush said Sunday she plans to continue working to advance the position of women in Afghanistan after her husband's time in office ends in January. — In an interview with NBC's “Meet the Press,”
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US dominance in world affairs may be declining. Who might be the next superpower? Surprisingly, many readers answered China. Next week's poll is now up.
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