Saturday, March 07, 2009

SPB News for Sunday.


In NYT interview, president declares little progress, ponders Taliban outreach.

Turkey ready to serve as exit route for Iraq withdrawal plan.

Iraqi pariah widows shamed, abused
Many become prostitutes, working in modern-styled nightclubs.

Pots of urine, feces on the walls - how IDF troops vandalized Gaza homes By Amira Hass We had already visited this house, belonging to the Abu Eida family. It is the only one of the family's nine large houses that remained standing at the eastern edge of the city of Jabalya following Operation Cast Lead. The demolition of the family's houses and its four cement factories spells the loss of 40 years of hard work.

Federal Courts in Va., N.Y. May Take Some Guantanamo Cases Federal authorities have finished compiling detailed electronic dossiers on 241 prisoners who remain in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and interagency review teams have begun studying the individual files. The process could see some suspects transferred to federal courts, possibly in Northern Virginia and New York City, the jurisdictions where the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks occurred, according to Justice Department officials.

IRS dumps private debt collectors, shifts pendulum So much for privatizing the federal government. The Internal Revenue Service's decision this week to quit using debt collectors to dun delinquent taxpayers was celebrated by public employee unions as a pendulum shift after watching the Bush regime often opt for private contractors over federal workers to deliver government services. The IRS program was a small one, bringing in a little more than $80 million since its inception in 2006.

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