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I told the officers from a distance that we had done nothing wrong and therefore were not interested in having a discussion. As mentioned, it was 2:15 am and we were in the process of hailing a cab. The moment I turned away from the officers, they both proceeded to sprint in my direction and forcibly restrain and handcuff me. Without any sort of explanation, I was thrown in the back of a squad car and driven to a nearby station. Vincent was left on the sidewalk having no idea why I had been abducted.
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Source: Dissident Voice

Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada was charged Tuesday with lying to the US Congress about taking a performance-enhancing substance. Tajeda is expected to plead guilty to lying to a Congressional investigation about taking steroids and about knowledge of other players taking steroids.

Tajeda’s alleged lies about the steroid usage did not result in one person, and certainly not 1.3+ million people, being killed.

Tajeda’s alleged lie was not a pretext to enable launching an assault on human beings. Moreover, his alleged steroid usage did not result in widespread destruction of another country’s economic infrastructure, hospitals, centers of worship, schools, the ransacking of a country’s historical artifacts, the littering of a country with depleted uranium. It did not result in war crimes being committed with glaring impunity. It did not result in the erasure of habeas corpus, the humiliation and torture of captives, and setting up of gulags around the world. Tajeda did not occupy another person’s land.

Apparently, nowadays when the president and vice-president and their coterie lie to Congress, then everything is kosher. Read More

A private contractor at the British Embassy in Iraq has been removed from his post after a second round of sexual harassment claims against him, sources say.

The unidentified British manager for the U.S. company Kellogg Brown and Root was allowed to return to his job at the embassy in 2007 after the company performed an internal investigation on allegations he had sexually harassed and Iraqi cleaner and two cooks, The Times of London reported Wednesday.

But a fresh round allegations, this time accusing the KBR manager of having sexual relations with a female Iraqi employee on embassy property, has resulted in the manager being suspended and flown out of the country, unnamed sources told the newspaper.

The new accusations are an embarrassment to British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, The Times said, because the three Iraqis who filed the first allegations were never questioned and lost their jobs while Miliband allowed KBR to conduct its own investigation of the incident despite conflict-of-interest concerns.

A spokeswoman for KBR would not comment on the new claims, The Times said.