Iraqi parliament votes to revoke an MP’s immunity. Details: Earlier this year he was caught at Baghdad airport carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars in a suitcase, reinforcing the belief of many that he was engaged in illicit profiteering. During the debate on lifting his parliamentary immunity, the head of the integrity commission said that…
Read More A quick Iraq round-upReid wants to change the law so you can be tortured if he says you’re evil enough. Not only that, he wants one of the people who the courts found innocent of preparing ricin in the great no-ricin no-plot tortured, presumably to get out of him why he didn’t prepare any ricin. This is an…
Read More Recidivist with alert populationsSo, the redeployment of the Queen’s Own Hussars battle group from Abu Naji to the border. How’s that going? Ellen Knickmeyer of the Washington Post goes to the non-front and finds out. A few hundred British troops living out of nothing more than their cut-down Land Rovers and light armored vehicles have taken to the…
Read More Test the theoryBoingBoing: Wow! a sculpture of someone being shot in the head, and doubts about hypoallergenic cats – are they against open-source? Anna Politkovskaya shot in the head, in the lift up to her flat, while the shopping bags waited in the car.
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