Archive for September, 2006
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Today In Anchorage
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Saturday, September 30th, 2006
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Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Bitter But True
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Saturday, September 30th, 2006
I Hope This Goes Down In Flames
U.S. terrorism trials face court challenges By James ViciniSat Sep 30, 9:26 AM ET New military trial rules for terrorism suspects that President George W. Bush endorsed and Congress approved will draw vigorous court challenges and could be struck down for violating rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution, critics and legal experts said. The legal […]
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill
By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 29, 2006; A13 The military trials bill approved by Congress lends legislative support for the first time to broad rules for the detention, interrogation, prosecution and trials of terrorism suspects far different from those in the familiar American criminal justice system. President Bush’s argument that […]
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
On This Day
Michaelmas - Feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael (RC) 855 - Pope Benedict III becomes pope 1770 - The day before his death, George Whitefield prays: ‘Lord Jesus, I am weary in thy work, but not of it.’ 1850 - Catholic hierarchy re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius […]
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Book Says Bush Ignored Urgent Warning on Iraq
By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — The White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that thousands of additional American troops were desperately needed to quell the insurgency there, according to a new book by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter and author. The book […]
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Fall Whaling Season
Kunneak Neakok assists in butchering a bowhead whale caught by the Quvan Crew during the first day of the fall whaling season Monday in Barrow. Other workers in the background are pulling slabs of the muktuk, which is the skin and the fat of the whale. In keeping with tradition, Neakok will receive a share […]