Monday, January 14, 2008

SPB News for Monday.



Report: 121 Veterans Linked to Killings --Report: at Least 121 Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Linked to Killings in the US At least 121 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have committed a killing or been charged in one in the United States after returning from combat, The New York Times reported Sunday. The newspaper said it also logged 349 homicides involving all active-duty military personnel and new veterans in the six years since military action began in Afghanistan, and later Iraq.

Soldier's death in Afghanistan blamed on helicopter fault A British soldier bled to death in Afghanistan because of faulty equipment, compounded by incompetence, according to a military inquiry into the incident.

Prisoners 'to be chipped like dogs' --Civil rights groups and probation officers furious at 'degrading' scheme Ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space [!] in British jails. The Ministry of Justice is investigating the use of satellite and radio-wave technology to monitor criminals. The tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the skin of offenders in the community, to help enforce home curfews.



Government killed Bhutto: poll Nearly half of Pakistanis suspect that government agencies or government-linked politicians killed Benazir Bhutto, an opinion poll showed, highlighting the popular mistrust of the country's US-allied president ahead of elections next month. Bhutto, an opposition leader and former prime minister, was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack on December 27.

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