Sunday, November 08, 2009

SPB News for Sunday


Activists on both sides eye NJ as next battleground for same-sex marriage.

Osama bin Laden videotape a repeat A videotape of Osama bin Laden released on Friday is a repeat of a tape released many months ago. IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring company, says the latest videotape is the Pashto-language version of the previously released tape. Titled "To Our People in Pakistan," the original tape was released on July 12th in Arabic and Urdu, IntelCenter said Friday. Excerpts had already been screened by Al-Jazeera television (on June 3rd) IntelCenter added.

Army: Shooting Suspect Taken Off Ventilator --Army officials: Hasan 'not able to converse.' A U.S. Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care at a military hospital. Spokesman Col. John Rossi told reporters on Saturday at Fort Hood that he is not sure if Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is able to communicate. Hasan was shot during an exchange of gunfire during Thursday's attack. The military moved him on Friday to Brooke Medical Center in San Antonio, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Hood. Army officials have said Hasan is "not able to converse."

4 Colo. vets sue Halliburton, KBR --Similar suits are pending in at least 11 other states Associated Press Four Colorado veterans are the latest to file "burn pit" lawsuits against military contractors accused of exposing soldiers to toxic fumes and ash. The veterans are suing Houston-based [terrorists] Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc., which have been accused in several lawsuits around the country of operating dangerous war-zone burn pits.

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