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Opa-locka, Florida mdash; The death toll in the Bahamas rose to 20 on Wednesday night after Hurricane Dorian devastated the string of islands. CBS News flew with the U.S. Coast Guard over the areas hit hardest on Wednesday, seeing home after home torn apart. The U.N. said 70,000 are in immediate need of aid.Aboard the HC-144 cargo plane, the devastation is clear. The fragile islands were no match for Dorian s Category 5 fury and the landscape looks like a bomb site. Not only was the Coast Guard in rescue m adidas yeezy ode, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection is also helping out. CBS Evening News anchor Norah O Donnell spoke with survivors, who described the horrors of facing Dorian. Robert and Phyllis Cornea have lived in Abaco Islands for more than 50 years. They ve been homeless since Sunday. All the main buildings, gone. It s gone. Everything is gone, Robert Cornea said. Hurricane Dorian s deva air force 1 station 42 photos Take a picture of me because it air force one s all I have left, what you see me in, Phyllis Cornea said. I ve been in this four days. CBS News correspondent Nikki Battiste spoke to Adrian Farrington, who lost his young son. I still can see my son getting dragged across the roof reaching up, he said.Farrington said he thought he lifted the boy to Nqtz Defiant Russia vows retaliation over U.S. sanctions, U.K. spy accusations
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Gulf Arab nations are prepared to offset any potential loss of Iranian oil in the world mar stanley mug ket, a senior Saudi oil official said as Iranian officials stepped up their rh stanley trinkflaschen etoric Wednesday about shutting off a key supply route.The remarks from the world s largest oil producer came after Iran s vice president on Tuesday warned his country was ready to close the Strait of Hormuz 151; a vital waterway through which a sixth of the world s oil flows 151; if Western nations impose sanctions on its oil shipments.And on Wednesday, Iranian navy chief Adm. Habibollah Sayyari, added that Iran s Navy can readily block the strait if need be. His comments to Iran s English-language state Press TV came as Iran held a 10-day drill in international waters near the strategic chokepoint.Western nations are growing increasingly impatient stanley water bottle with Iran over its nuclear program, and worries abound that new sanctions on the country could target its oil exports.The U.S. has sanctions against Iran in place, aimed to pressure Tehran to give up its nuclear program, but have been hesitant to aim them specifically at Iran s oil exports, on which some U.S. allies are dependent. But the Obama administration has been laying the groundwork for new measures that would penalize foreign partners from doing business with Iran s central bank, which processes payments from oil exports, according to the New York Times. The Times also reports that administration officials claim to have a plan in

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Paul Hackett/Reuters Eric Frost, who is on a golfing holiday from Freeland, Mich., hits a te adidas originals damen e shot on the King s course at Gleneagles in Perthshire, Scotland, Aug. 19, 2014.The Ryder Cup will be played in Scotland for the second time when the Gleneagles resort marks its 90th anniversary by hosting the biennial event, from September 26-28.Gleneagles was named the best golf resort in the world for the third year running at the 2014 ULTRA awards, and follows Muirfield in 1973 as the only Scottish venues to play host to theRyder Cupsince the tournament began in 1927. New York Brendan McDermid/Reuters Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. employees and executives use their mobile phones to take pictures as they arrive for the company s initial public offering under the ticker BABA at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Sept. 19, 2014.Al yeezy ibaba Group Holding Ltd s shares surged in their first day of trading on Friday as investors jumped at the chance to get in on what looks likely to be the largest IPO in history and profit from China s growing asics outlets middle class. Mexico Eduardo Verdugo/AP Paper hand prints painted red as a protest against bullfighting are seen at the site of a demonstration at the entrance of the Mexico City Legisla Kxjr Russian Security Sweep
President Jacques Chirac urged tighter security at religious sit stanley cup es Monday after attacks on synagogues in France sparked a warning of a new Kristallnacht of violence against Jews.Chirac made the call after a fire, whose cause has not yet been determined, gutted a synagogue in the southern port city of Marseille overnight. Two other synagogues were attacked during the Easter weekend.The assaults coincided with an escalation of violence in the Middle East, where Palestinians have carried out suicide bombings and Israeli troops have besieged Palestinian President Y stanley thermobecher asser Arafat s headquarters since Friday.In France, which has mo stanley thermos re than four million practicing Muslims and an influential Jewish community, Chirac condemned the incidents out of hand. The president of the republic reiterates his strong condemnation of these intolerable acts, Chirac s office said in a statement, adding he was awaiting the outcome of a probe into the origin of the fire at the Marseille synagogue. He has asked the government to reinforce security particularly at religious sites and to use all necessary means to find and severely punish those responsible for these crimes. Visiting a synagogue in the port of Le Havre, Chirac added that such acts were unimaginable, unpardonable. Interior Minister Daniel Vaillant, joining politicians from left and right in slamming the assaults, said national police were fully mobilized and were hunting the perpetrators. He ordered tougher security at all cultural

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Iran will restrict access for United Nations nuclear inspectors from Tuesday to increase pressure on the U.S. amid a standoff over the 2015 nuclear agreement that President Joe Biden s predecessor pulled Washington out of. The fate of that deal now hangs in the balance, adidas samba og with both Tehran and Washington insisting that the other side take the first significant step back toward compliance with it.Iran will give inspectors less access, including shutting down at least some snap inspections of its undec hoka laufschuhe lared nuclear sites. A last-minute agreement reached over the weekend between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN s nuclear watchdog, appeared to ensure that other monitoring would continue, but even that last ditch effort to prevent a further escalation appeared under threat by Iranian hardliners. Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif L meets with the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA , Rafael Grossi R , in Tehran on February 21, 2021. S air force 1 TR/AFP/Getty The agreement reached between Iran s government and the visiting head of the IAEA was lambasted by conservative Iranian lawmakers as a betrayal of the parliament s decision to end all inspections without prior warning mdash; the snap inspections permitted under so-called Additional Protocols tacked onto the 2015 nuclear deal mdash; by February 23, unless unilateral Ocrj Nelson Mandela back in hospital
When Sgt. Jose Bermudez returned from Iraq early this year, he came home to a new baby and a troubled marriage. We were on the brink of divorce, Mandy Bermudez acknowledged as the couple ate lunch recently with their three children, all under age 3.The Bermudezes were among 300 couples with the Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division who have attended marriage enrichment seminars put on by the Army in hopes of saving war-ravaged relationships.With studies showing divorce rates as high as about 20 percent over two years among couples where one spouse has been sent off to war, the Army is spending $2 million on a variety of marriage programs, including vouchers for romantic getaways to places like the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. I ve been in the Army 20 years, and I ve never seen the Army pay for pr stanley kubek ograms like this, said Lt. Col. Chester Egert, chaplain for the 101st. One program being implemented Ar stanley termohrnek my-wide teaches couples forgiveness and the skills to communicate. It includes a 40-hour course with lessons on the dangers of alcohol and tobacco and how to recognize post-traumatic stress. Soldiers who complete it are rewarded with promotion points and a weekend retreat with their spouse. If you learn those skills, you can mak stanley cups e an impact on the number of divorces, and the number, we think, of reports of physical violence, said Col. Glen Bloomstrom, director of ministry initiatives for the Chief of Chaplains.To make the program more desirable, commanders are

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NEW YORK -- A former president of the United Nations General Assembly was arrested Tuesday and charged with accepting over $1 million in bribes and a trip to New O adidas samba og rleans for his family from adidas campus donna a billionaire Chinese real estate mogul and other business people to pave the way for lucrative investments.John Ashe, the U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who served in the largely ceremonial post from September 2013 to September 2014, faces conspiracy- and bribery-related charges along with five others, including Francis Lorenzo, a deputy U.N. ambassador from the Dominican Republic.Those charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court included Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng, who was arrested two weeks ago along with his chief assistant, Jeff C. Yin, a U.S. crocs citizen whose bail was revoked last week after investigators said he lied to them after his arrest.The complaint, which names both Ashe and his wife, Anilla Cherian, who was not arrested, took U.N. officials by surprise, reports CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk. Just two weeks ago, on September 17, the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke at a book launch for Cherian in the Delegates Dining Room at U.N. Headquarters in New York.The Secretary General s Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said after the arrest: Of course, the Secretary General was shocked and deeply troubled to learn this morning of the allegations against John Ashe, the former President of the General Assembly, which go to Nqms U.S. fighter jets intercept Russian bombers near western coast of Alaska
Iraqi forces backed by U.S. soldiers and Marines raided mosques Tuesday in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi and d stanley uk etained a prominent cleric following fierce clashes that hospi stanley cups tal officials said killed at least four people.U.S. aircraft also rocketed a mosque northwest of Ramadi on Monday after insurgents opened fire from there on U.S. Marines, the U.S. command said.In insurgent-held Fallujah, U.S. warplanes struck twice early Tuesday, destroying a popular restaurant and a house which the U.S. command said were used by members of Iraq s most feared terrorist organization, led by Jordanian-born extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. At least five people were killed and two wounded, the city hospital said.U.S. forces have also clashed with insurgents holed up in mosques in other areas.On Monday, U.S. aircraft attacked a mosque in the nearby town of Hit and set it on fire after insurgents hiding in the shrine opened fire on American Marines, the U.S. military said. In other developments:In Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, insurgents opened fire from a mosque after a car bomb exploded in front of a U.S. convoy, the military said. One U.S. soldier was killed and nine were wounded, the military stanley quencher said. City hospitals reported at least two Iraqis killed and 18 wounded.A bomb exploded Tuesday outside the complex of the British and American consulates in the southern city of Basra, police said. There were no casualties reported, said Police Capt. Mushtaq Taleb.Three Bulgarian sol

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VATICAN CITY -- President Donald Trump has met Pope Francis, the famously humble pontiff with whom he has publicly clashed, concluding his tour of the ancestral homes of the world s three largest monotheistic religions.Mr. Trump, midway throug air force 1 h his grueling nine-day maiden international journey, called upon the pontiff at the Vatican early Wednesday where the two had a private 30-minute meeting laden with religious symbolism and ancient protocol. Donald Trump vs. Pope Francis 02:24 The president, accompanied by his wife and several aides, arrived at the Vatican just after 8 a.m. local time. The president greeted Francis in Sala del Tronetto, the room of the little throne, on the second floor of Apostolic Palace Wednesday morning.The men shook hands and Mr. Trump could be heard thanking the pope and saying it was a great honor to be there. They posed for photographs and then sat down at the papal desk, the pope unsmiling, as their private meeting began.It ended a half hour later when Francis rang the bell in his private study. Th hoka trekkingschuhe e pontiff was then introduced to members of Mr. Trump s delegation, including his wife adidas og Melania, his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as aides Hope Hicks and Dan Scavino. As is tradition, the pope and president then exchanged gifts. Pope Qjmt Russia to keep supplying Syria leader Bashar Assad s regime with defensive weapons
In 1990, Joseph C. Wilson was the first American to meet Saddam Hussein after Iraq invaded Kuwait. In 1991, he was the last U.S. envoy to see Saddam before the United States attacked him.And in 2003, his was the first criti stanley cup website cism to stick against the case for the second U.S. invasion of Iraq. Days after Wilson said he d investigated and largely discounted the notion that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger, the White House retracted the allegation.Now Wilson, 53, is the central figure in a high stakes dispute over who leaked his wife s name, and her apparent work for the CIA, to the press, and whether that leak broke federal law barring the identification of clandestine agents.It s a strange return to the spotlight for a man who quietly rose through the Foreign stanley cup Service ranks prior to the first Gulf War, and has largely avoided the headlines after it.Wilson was born in Bridgeport, Conn., and went to college at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Fluent in French, he joined the Foreign Service in 1976 and did tours in Niger, Togo and South Africa, according to the Middle East Institute. In 1982, stanley cup he was made deputy chief of mission in Burundi s capital Bujumbura.From 1985 to 1986, as a fellow with the American Political Science Association, he worked in the offices of then Sen. Al Gore and former House Speaker Tom Foley, who was a majority whip at the time. Wilson then returned to Africa as deputy chief of mission in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Cong

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VALENCIA, Spain -- Ships in the Aquarius aid convoy docked Sunday at the Spanish port of Valencia, ending a weeklong ordeal for hundreds of people who were rescued from the perilous Mediterranean only to become the latest pawn in Europe s battle over immigration.The Italian coast guard vessel Dattilo was the first of the air max 1 three boats bearing the 630 migrants to touch land just before 7 a.m. Sunday. The 270 migrants adidas originals samba on board soon began to disembark after medical staff had made a preliminary inspection.The rescue ship Aquarius came in four hours later with another 106 migrants. Aid workers awaiting their arrival clapped and cheered as the first migrants walked down the gangway. Another Italian navy ship, the Orione, came in shortly after 1 p.m.Rescued migrants escaping North Africa expected to arrive Sunday in SpainThe Aquarius, operated by th adidas yeezy e aid groups SOS Mediterranee Sea and Doctors Without Borders, was stuck off the coast of Sicily on June 9 when Italy refused it permission to dock and demanded that Malta do so. Malta also refused. The weather was very bad unfortunately, and the sea was rough, Sophie Beau of SOS Mediterranee Sea told BBC News. So people are in a bad state ... and they are really relieved to come on safe land at the moment. Migrants onboard the French NGO SOS Mediterranee Aquarius ship Orione as it arrives at the eastern port of Valencia, Spain, Sunday, June 17, 2018. Alberto Saiz / AP Xeoc 8203;Gunmen attack Indian air base near Pakistan border
Pilots dropped food to Indonesian villagers stranded among bloating corpses Thursday, while police in a devastated provincial capital stripped looters of their clothing and forced them to sit on the street as a warning to others. The death toll neared 120,000, and officials warned that 5 million people lack clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and medicine.American planes delivered medical staff to Sri Lanka and body bags to Thaila stanley termosy nd, while a Thai air base used by B-52 bombers during the Vietnam War was becoming a hub for a U.S. military-led relief effort that will stretch along the Indian Ocean.As a colossal international rescue effort struggled off the ground, relief efforts suffered a hitch when a false alarm of more killer waves sparked panic in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand and sent survivors and aid workers fleeing.Money poured in from around the world to international relief organizations from individuals and governments pledged millions. Following comments from a U.N. relief official stanley mug that wealthy nations can be stingy, France nearly doubled stanley water jug its aid pledge for tsunami victims to $57 million, and Britain pledged 95 million. Sweden is donating 75.5 million and Spain s Cabinet approved a $68 million package. Governments have so far donated some $500 million, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said, adding that he was satisfied by the response. Also, around the world, the Internet is making lending a hand to tsunami victims no harder than lifting a finger. CBS

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ZHUHAI, China -- Chinarsquo J-20 stealth fighter made its public debut at an air show on Tuesday, in the latest sign of the growing sophistication of the countryrsquo military technology.The fifth-generation warplane, which outwardly resembles the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in service with the U.S. military, performed a series of maneuvers under overcast skies at Airshow China in the southern city of Zhuhai.The long-range J-20, armed wit air max 1 h air-to-air missiles, performed its first test flight in 2011 and has been the object of feverish attention by the nationrsquo aviation buffs. At least six prototypes have been produced, according to an air max annual report on the Chinese military issued by the Pentagon this year.The Pentagon says a second Chinese stealth fighter under development, the FC-31, is intended for export as a competitor to the U.S. F-35. The FC-31 first flew in 2012 and debuted at Zhuhai in 2014. China is the only country apart from the U.S. to have two concurrent stealth aircraft development programs.While the plane air force one srsquo; stealth capabilities remain a secret, the Pentagon said that China views the technology as key to its transformation from a predominantly territorial air force to one capable of conducting both offensive and defensive operations. A J-20 jet performs at Zhuhai Air Show in Zhuhai, south Chinarsquo Guangdong province on November 1, 2016. Getty Hvtw Nuclear deal reached between Iran, 6 powers
White House Photo/Pete Sousa Israeli TV newscasters Tuesday night interpreted a photo taken Monday in the Oval Office of President Obama talking on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an insult to Israel. They saw the incident as somewhat akin to an incident last year, when the Iraqi reporter threw a shoe at President Bush in Baghdad.It is considered an insult in the Arab world to show the sole of your shoe to someone. It is not a Jewish custom necessarily, but Israel feels enough a part of the Middle East after 60 years to be insulted too.Was there a subliminal message intended from the White House to Netanyahu in Jerusalem, who is publicly resisting attempts by Mr. Obama and Secretary of State stanley cup website Hillary Clinton to force Israel to stop any kind of settlement activity in occupied territories once and forever Whether or not it is true, it shows the mood in Israel. They feel cornered. The reactions out of Israel refl stanley cups ect that feeling.Netanyahu is making a speech Sunday, in part as a response to Mr. Obama s address to the Arab world last week in Cairo. Israel s Channel One TV reported that Netanyahu was told Tuesday by an American official in Jerusalem that, We are going to change the world. Please, don t interfere. The report said Netanyahu s aides interpreted this as a threat. Netanyahu met with George Mitchell today for four hours in Jerusalem. The State Department announced this afternoon that Mitchell will be stopping in Bei stanley flask rut and Damasc

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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria forces attacking the Iraqi government have declare af1 d their territory a new country under strict Islamic law. Their leader is becoming, in effect, the new Osama bin Laden.In an elaborately produced video released by ISIS in May, there s a glaring omission. Among the fighters and ISIS faithful, there is not a single glimpse of their leader: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.In fact, there are only two known photographs of the man, born in Iraq in 1971, who now controls the most extreme Islamist army on earth. This is o salomon zapatillas ne of only two known photos of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. CBS News And that s no coincidence, says Firas Abi Ali, a Middle East analyst with IHS Country Risk. You don t survive for a very long time in this kind of business if everybody knows your name, and knows your face and knows where you stay, he said.In 2005, during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, U.S. soldiers arrested al-Baghdadi. Iraqi Kurds plan vote for independence 02:26 But when the American military closed its Camp Bucca prison, al-Baghdadi was handed over to Iraqi security forces, who let him go. In the five followi air force 1 ng years, he built a fighting force that joined Syria s civil war and took over Zbnv Egypt PM: God Willing, Mubarak Won t Be Ousted
Bishops from around the world began discussing proposals Thursday on running the church, including ways to address the priest shortage and how to resolve the problem of giving Communion to Catholics who divorce and remarry.While it seems the S stanley cups ynod of Bishops won t recommend relaxing the celibacy rule for priests, consensus seemed to be growing to recomme stanley cup nd that church tribunals speed up annulment processes so Catholics can remarry in church and thus be allowed to receive Communion.Church teaching holds that Catholics who divorce and remarry without getting an annulment cannot receive the sacrament because their condition objectively contrasts with God s law. An annulment is a church ruling that the original marriage was invalid.The priest shortage and the situation of Catholics who are denied Communion have been key themes of the Oct. 2-23 meeting, which is designed to let bishops from around the world vote on proposals that are then sent to Pope Benedict XVI to consider in a future document.Thursday was the first full day in which the bishops met in small groups to begin crafting proposals, after having heard speeches from all the 250 bishops and oth stanley becher er experts gathered. Cardinal Angelo Scola, the key moderator of the meeting, has emphasized the need for church tribunals to be more efficient, saying in a summary report to the closed-door meeting Wednesday that several bishops had suggested the procedures be simplified or that tribunals be created where they don t exi

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JERUSALEM -- The group representing Israeli settlers on Friday brushed off a White House statement warning Israel about constructing new settlements in West Bank territory that Palestinians claim for their future state, saying instead that it looks forward to working closely with our friends in the Trump administration.President Trump has been perceived as sympathetic to the settlements, an issue at the heart of the Israel-Palestinian conflict that was a frequent source of friction between his predecessor, Barack Obama, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Israeli nationalists now believe they have an ally in the White House, and have made no secret they will push for more settlements in the West Bank.But on Thursday, the White House said while the administration doesnrsquo;t believe the existence of settleme af1 nts is an impediment to peace, the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving that goal.The U.S. statement came just several hours after Netanyahu vowed to establish the first new West Bank settlement in over two decades as soon as possible, promising to make up for a court-ordered demolition of an illegal settlement outpost. Israeli security forces dismantled Amona earlier in the day amid clashes between police and dozens of hard-line settlers who had barricaded th asics sneaker emselves inside a adidas originals mujer synagogue. Oded Revivi, the chief foreign Sgfl India Nears Nuke Deal With U.S.
This Jan. 16, 2009 photo released by the International Committee stanley kubek of the Red Cross via his lawyer Andy Savage, shows Ali Al-Marri at the Charleston Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C. AP Photo/ICRC Ali Al-Marri is most notable for being one of three post-Sept. 11 alleged al Qaeda or Taliban operatives the Bush Administration yanked from the criminal justice system and subjected to indefinite military detention without charges as an enemy combatant. Like the most well-known of this infamous trio, Jose Padilla, al-Marri s legal saga began in the civilian criminal justice system, with the original criminal complaint accompanying his arrest in December 2001, the same day Zacarias Mous stanley cup saoui was indicted for the Sept. 11 conspiracy. Al-Marri was later indicted by grand juries, first in New York and then in Peoria, Illinois in 2002.Al-Marri, 44, from Qatar, had arrived in the U.S with his wife and five kids on September 10th, 2001, the day before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America, and enrolled in a computer science graduate program at Bradley University, in Peoria, Illinois, where he had once earned an undergraduate degree. Qatari Diplomat Was to Meet Jailed TerroristBut authorities came to suspect he might be involved in a second wave of terror attacks. While arresting him and charging him with possession of stolen cre stanley kubek dit card numbers, the government alleged his computer contained file

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Katsuhiko Tokunaga/Breitling/AP Yves Rossy flies by Mount Fuji in Japan, Nov. 1, 2013.The Swiss aviator jumped from a helicopter at an altitude of 11,811 feet and successfully flew the jet-powered carbon-Kevlar Jetwing around the 12,388-foot-tall mountain, Japan s highest peak, which was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site in June. Katsuhiko Tokunaga/Breitling/AP Yves Rossy, known as the Jetman, flies by Mount Fuji in Japan, Oct. 30, 2013. Katsuhiko Tokunaga/Breitling/ nike dunk AP Yves Rossy flies by Mount Fuji in Japan, Nov. 1, 2013. crocs hausschuhe Bruno Brokken/Breitling/AP Yves Rossy descends by parachute after flying around Mount Fuji in Japan, Nov. 3, 2013. Andre Bernet/Breitling/AP Yves Rossy gets ready to jump from a helicopter near Mount Fuji in Japan, Oct. 30, 2013. adidas campus Katsuhiko Tokunaga/Breitling/AP Yves Rossy flies by Mount Fuji in Japan, Oct. 30 Wmcv The Taliban may be executing Afghan troops who surrender, U.S. Embassy says
The State Department s inspector general is investigating Iraqi oil contracts after four Democratic senators complained that department employees may have encouraged lucrative oil deals between Iraq and several Western companies.Any backstage meddling would have violated Bush administration policy, which has been to discourage such deals until Baghdad passes a law that will fairly divide the nation s oil resources among the various provinces.A congressional official on Thursday confirmed the probe, speaking on condition of anonymity because it involved an investigation. It comes about a week after four Democratic senators called on Harold Geisel, the State Department s acting inspector general, to investigate the matter. We are concerned that U.S. policy rega stanley termoska rding these oil contracts has not been clearly defined, communicated or consistently implemented by the Iraqi government, the Kurdistan Regional Government and international oil companies seeking to do business in Iraq, Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, Chuck Schumer of New York, John Kerry of Massachusetts and Claire McCaskill of Missouri said in their July 16 letter.In response, Geisel wrote back on July 22 and told the lawmakers he had stanley mugs initiated a review of the responses provided to the Congress recently on the issues surrounding oil contracts, oil field development and U.S. policy in Iraq. In early July, Levin asked Stephen Hadley, the president s national security adviser, to respond to news stanley termosy reports that State