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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Quickhits

(NYTimes) The chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo has stepped down citing interference from a supervising general at the Pentagon.
They said he also pushed the prosecutors to frame cases with bold terrorism accusations that would draw public attention to the military commission process, which has been one of the central legal strategies of the Bush administration.

(AP) Musharraf won the vote, but now everyone waits to see if the Supreme Court rules his candidacy illegal.

(NYTimes) Young Christians in Lebanon are joining militias in preparation for a civil war.

(WaPo) A group of US interrogators from WWII decry the current policies of torture, saying they didn't need it against the Nazis.

(CNN) The US has detained a Sunni member of parliament in Iraq after he was picked up in a raid.

And, (Aswataliraq) Two Sadrist clerics were assassinated in the growing conflicts in Basra.

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