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Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Acquitted of Sodomy Charges
Mon,9 Jan 2012 10:30 PM PST
Time.com - Wild scenes erupted around Malaysia's High Court on Monday after opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was acquitted of sodomy charges. Critics had long claimed that the case was an attempt to sideline the charismatic politician ahead of national elections expected later this year. The 64-year-old's supporters greeted the news with shock and jubilation. Inside the court, family and friends wept for joy. Outside, thousands cheered the decision and the prospect of a profound change to the Southeast Asian country's political landscape. ... Full Story | Top |
Death penalty to be sought in Utah police shootings
Mon,9 Jan 2012 07:49 PM PST
Reuters - SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Prosecutors said on Monday they will seek the death penalty against a Utah Army veteran suspected of killing one police officer and wounding five others in a shootout during a drug raid at his home. Weber County Attorney Dee Smith also revealed a few details on a suspicious device detonated last weekend at the home in Ogden of the suspected shooter, 37-year-old Matthew Stewart. ... Full Story | Top |
Snoop Dogg arrested on marijuana charge
Mon,9 Jan 2012 05:18 PM PST
Reuters -  SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested over the weekend after border control agents found what they said was a small amount of marijuana on his tour bus. The singer and record producer, 40, was stopped at the same Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint on Saturday where country singer Willie Nelson was arrested for marijuana possession in 2010, customs officials said. Bill Brooks, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said agents conducted a routine inspection of the rapper's tour bus on at the U.S. ...
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Father arrested in Facebook post case indicted
Mon,9 Jan 2012 04:33 PM PST
Associated Press - A Chicago man accused of posting a photo on Facebook of his young daughter bound to a chair with tape over her mouth has been indicted on several felony charges, a prosecutor's office official said Monday. Full Story | Top |
Boss of costumed NYC crime ring gets 9 to 18 years
Mon,9 Jan 2012 04:21 PM PST
Associated Press - The leader of a crime ring that combined old-fashioned pickpocketing, modern-day identity theft and an array of costumes to steal more than $700,000 from banks was sentenced Monday to 9 to 18 years in prison. Full Story | Top |
Marine accused of losing control in war crime
Mon,9 Jan 2012 04:09 PM PST
Associated Press -  A Marine sergeant charged in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops in the Iraq war made a series of fatal assumptions and lost control of himself when he and his squad killed 24 Iraqis, including unarmed women and children, a military prosecutor said Monday.
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Marine accused of using control in war crime
Mon,9 Jan 2012 11:37 AM PST
Associated Press - A Marine sergeant charged in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops in the Iraq war made a series of fatal assumptions and lost control of himself when he and his squad killed 24 Iraqis, including unarmed women and children, a military prosecutor said Monday.
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Ex-U.S. Army soldier arrested over aid to Somali militants
Mon,9 Jan 2012 11:03 AM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former U.S. Army soldier trained in intelligence and cryptology has been arrested and charged for trying to help the Somali al Shabaab militant group, an al Qaeda affiliate, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday. Craig Baxam, 24 and from a Maryland suburb outside Washington, was arrested by Kenyan authorities last month as he tried to cross the border into Somalia to join the group, federal prosecutors said. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2007 and was deployed to Iraq. ... Full Story | Top |
Muslim man arrested in Florida trying to obtain explosives
Mon,9 Jan 2012 10:23 AM PST
Reuters - ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - A 25-year-old Muslim man born in Kosovo was charged on Monday with trying to obtain explosives and firearms to attack Florida businesses and a police station, authorities said. Sami Osmakac, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Kosovo -- a disputed Balkan state once a part of the former Yugoslavia which declared its independence from Serbia in 2008 -- was charged with one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. ... Full Story | Top |
Opening statements begin in Iraq war crime trial
Mon,9 Jan 2012 09:56 AM PST
Associated Press - A military prosecutor at Camp Pendleton, Calif., has begun his opening statement in the court-martial of a Marine whose squad killed 24 Iraqis, including unarmed women and children, in the Iraqi town of Haditha in 2005.
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F.B.I. Arrested an Amateur 'Islamic Extremist' in an Alleged Florida Terrorist Plot
Mon,9 Jan 2012 09:10 AM PST
The Atlantic Wire - Federal authorities say they've arrested an "Islamic extremist" who tried to buy weapons to attack sites around Tampa, Florida, using vehicle bombs, assault rifles, and grenades that an F.B.I. agent disabled before selling to him. It's a dramatic-sounding bust for the F.B.I., but becomes a little less so after you learn the guy only had access to the weapons he wanted because an undercover agent provided it. ... Full Story | Top |
Zopittybop-bop-bop arrested near Wisconsin Capitol
Mon,9 Jan 2012 09:05 AM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - He'd better watch out or he'll make a bad name for himself. Or maybe he already has. Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-bop-bop, 30, was expected to be charged on Monday with possession of marijuana and a knife, as well as a probation violation following the Wisconsin's man's arrest in a park near the state Capitol, police said. Zopittybop-bop-bop -- formerly Jeffrey Drew Wilschke before a state court approved his name change request in November -- was arrested on Thursday afternoon in a park less than a mile from the Capitol in Madison after police received complaints from neighbors. ...
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25-year-old man arrested in US bomb plot
Mon,9 Jan 2012 08:50 AM PST
Associated Press - A 25-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia was charged with an alleged plot to attack crowded locations in the Tampa area, including night clubs, with a car bomb, assault rifle and other explosives, federal authorities said Monday. Full Story | Top |
25-year-old man arrested by feds in Fla. bomb plot
Mon,9 Jan 2012 08:43 AM PST
Associated Press - A 25-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia was charged with an alleged plot to attack crowded locations in the Tampa area, including night clubs, with a car bomb, assault rifle and other explosives, federal authorities said Monday. Full Story | Top |
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