| Bush: Turning his back on soldiers at home and abroad
It's no secret that President Bush has long turned his back on the soldiers fighting his war of choice in Iraq. Many of our soldiers are still buying their own body armor, even after a secret Pentagon study showed that many of the marines killed in Iraq by upper-body wounds might have survived had they worn more extensive armor. .
Egypt charges four with spying for Israel
Egypt has charged an Egyptian who holds Canadian citizenship and three Israelis with spying for Israel, a state prosecutor said on Saturday. High State Security Prosecutor Hisham Badawi said the Egyptian, Mohamed Essam Ghoneim el-Attar, 31, had been arrested and charged. The rest of the suspected spy ring, who are in Turkey and Canada, were charged in absentia. Badawi said the .
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There was no let up in the crisis bedeviling the Oyo State House of Assembly on Tuesday, as its two factions of lawmakers appeared before the House of Representatives Adhoc Committee, laying claim to the leadership of the House while also pointing to a near impossibility of ever sitting together again as one united legislative house.
At an open session held at the Function Room of the Premier Hotel, the lawmakers, led by their separate leaders, painted different pictures of the causes of the crisis and a possible way out of it.
Why the G14, who were opposed to the impeachment of the state governor, Senator Rasidi Ladoja, alleged that external forces were behind the crisis in the House in their desperate bid to get at the governor, the G18 lawmakers, loyal to the self-acclaimed godfather of Ibadan politics, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu put the blame of the crisis at the doorsteps of the govenor, accusing him of undue interference in the affairs of the House.
Still rooting at 103
That's Marion Wood's Super Bowl prediction, and you don't argue with a 103-year-old woman who saw Red Grange's six-touchdown day in person, holds a pretty strong claim on the distinction of oldest Bears fan and makes an awful lot of sense when she talks about Rex Grossman.
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