Gunmen Hold School Bus Hostage

 Story Highlights

• Gunmen fleeing from a hold up took hostage a school bus which contained 32 children and two teachers.
• They also said they were armed with grenades, an assault rifle and a pistol.
• Negotiations are being held currently.

Gunmen fleeing from a hold up took hostage a school bus which contained 32 children and two teachers they said on a note, they also said they were armed with grenades, an assault rifle and a pistol. Police have already circled the bus and are trying to negotiate, currently to no avail.

Should CIA prisons be banned?

 

 

Highlights clipped from news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is questioning whether the
CIA‘s secret prison program — which he fears has become a black eye to the United States — should continue.

he review led by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., comes as the Bush administration deliberates an executive order, called for by Congress, that will establish new guidelines for the CIA’s system for detaining and interrogating suspected terrorists.

President Bush said he emptied the CIA’s secret prisons in September and sent its last 14 high-value detainees to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But he left open the possibility that the program could be used again.

“The widespread reports about secret prisons and torture, whether accurate or not, have damaged the United States’ reputation around the world and hindered counterterrorism efforts with our allies,” he said.

Red Cross said the 14 prisoners described highly abusive interrogation methods

Different techniques are used, and they even include sleep deprivation

So what exactly is happening? For short, CIA camps have been said to use almost “severe” interrogation techniques according to this article. These camps hold terrorists, or suspected terrorists to find out more info. Humanitarian organizations frowned upon these camps and do not support them. The camps say they have performed all of their tasks within the law’s rules. The committee that has been formed because of this, is currently going over classified documents to include in their research. Hopefully everything will be able to be straightened out, but hopefully we could find another way to gather terrorist intelligence.

Rat Poison…In pet food?

This pet food is allegedly blamed for the death of 16 dogs and cats. The company recalled all 95 of their brands off the store shelves. “The substance in the food was identified as aminopterin, a cancer drug that once was used to induce abortions in the United States.” State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker said. The recall was huge, a total of 60 million cans were sent back. Aminopterin is a very highly toxic material, and just as bad in food. It is said that aminopterin causes kidney failure, supresses the immune system, and causes malignant cells to grow. Experts believe that this substance would not be in the food, unless it was deliberately put it there. The company is already facing several lawsuits.

President Bush, Mocked

Al-Qaida’s deputy leader, mocked President Bush’s plan to send 21,000 troops. He said, why not send 50,000 or 100,000. He also mentions, really bad things will happen when he sends them in. Not exactly sure what that means, but I don’t support sending in all these troops. Al ‘Qaida believes they can destroy an army 20x that size. While, that is not entirely true (face-to-face), their suicide combat, could easily destroy; a building, a bus, a train, a plain, causing mass havoc. So far, things aren’t going as “planned”.

Hello

I haven’t made a post in a couple days, it seems like that ties in with how many visitors I have each day, my visitor count dropped 20, which is a huge amount for a blog of my size. So, I will post about daily life :p, not much happening now, but in some news, the incident with Michael Vick and the mariujana, seems strange. I didn’t think he would be the type who would take drugs. They say it will take about 3 months to figure out the substance he had was. What had happened was, at the airport, he was asked to throw away his water bottle, and he argued for quite a while, and thne he finally did. That is what aroused suspicion, and I think an officer or someone else, picked up the water bottle and it was sent for studying. More news recently, is the elderly man who has had 5 woman trapped in his donegoen the last 15 years. He is said to have raped and beat them. I think one woman told the police what happened, but the story was to bizzare, and unrealistic, that they ignored it. They found that her story exactly like what had really happened. They say he will go to jail for the rest of his life. Well, that’s all the news I have on the top of my head, but I was watching football today. I was sort of hoping for the Saints to win, but meh, but at least the Colts won, I sort of felt bad for the Patriots, because I don’t know, they did really good during the season, and like the Colts deserved to be this far. But It wouldn’t be a good game, bears vs. patriots. I think it will be more intresting to see Colts and Bears face off. Well, I am off for now, look for a couple new posts tommorow.

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Woman Dies of Water-Intoxication

If you haven’t heard about the recent scandal, here it is. Apparently there was a drinking contest being held by a radio-station. The winner of the contest would receive a Nintendo Wii. A woman named Strange had entered the contest, to win a Wii for her three children. She was reported, telling a co-worker, after the contest that she wasn’t feeling to well and wanted to go home. The concerned co-worker, called her mother, to tell her she wasn’t feeling good. When her Mother came to Strange’s house, she found the 28 year old woman, dead.

Before the accident, some of the talk show hosts, were actually joking around, about how people could die of drinking this water. They even received a call fomr someone saying that people could die from water intoxication, and they replied, “We know”. 10 workers were fired including 5 radio personalities.

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