From Jake Tapper: ABC News has learned that Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has died. On Friday, Holbrooke was rushed to the hospital with a torn aorta. He went through more than 20 hours of surgery. Earlier this evening, speaking at the US State Department, President Obama sang Holbrooke’s praises […]
Perhaps up to 1,000 laptops, of which 400 could be tied to the anti-terrorism program: It has surfaced that the US State Department can’t account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. The State Department’s Inspector General has been conducting an equipment […]
Yup – we replaced Saddam with George Bush. One brutal dictator for another: The US security firm Blackwater has resumed limited operations in the Iraqi capital Baghdad four days after a deadly shootout involving the company. The company provides security to all US state department employees in Iraq. It had been ordered by the Iraqi […]
From ABC News Australia Blame Bush if anything happens to me: Chavez Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says President George W Bush would be to blame if anything happened to him, after an American evangelist said the US should assassinate the democratically-elected, leftist leader. Mr Chavez, a former soldier who often accuses the United States of […]
From theBBC US evangelical seeks Chavez talks A senior representative of America’s evangelical Christians is to make an attempt to set up a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The Rev Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, wants to distance American Christians from the remarks of a tele-evangelist. Pat Robertson earlier this […]