Monday, August 23, 2010
News Morning Newsdome:Ground Zero mosque organizer on taxpayer-funded Middle East tour
Posted by Bobby Feingold @senorbobby on Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:40 AM
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>> A Swedish arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was dropped this weekend after Assange was accused of rape. It sounds like a set-up to me, though he definitely fucked the U.S. military. (MSNBC)
>> Top commander Army General Ray Odierno said yesterday that troops will need to stay in Iraq past the president's announced 2011 withdrawal date to equip and teach the Iraqi army about the weapon systems. Like how we needed to equip Afghanistan-turned-Taliban with weapons too? (New York Daily News)
>> A former police officer fired for extortion hijacked a bus in the heard of Manila, Philippines, today for ten hours, killing at least two hostages before being shot dead by police. Good cops, bad cop. (CNN)
>> And finally: Thirty-three miners who have been trapped in a Chilean copper mine for the last seventeen days sent a message tied to a drill that they are alive, but Chilean president Sebastián Piñera said it “will take months” to get them out. Sorry, Piñera, don't think you have that kind of time. (the New York Times)
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