US navy says
giant crude carrier seized by Somali pirates off Kenyan coast.
Pirates have
attacked and taken control of the Saudi-owned crude carrier Sirius Star off the
east coast of Africa, a spokesman for the Bahrain-based US Navy Fifth Fleet
says.
Lieutenant
Nate Christensen's confirmation on Monday followed a statement saying that the
tanker, which is owned by Saudi Aramco, came under attack more than 450
nautical miles southeast of Mombasa, Kenya.
The
Bush/Blair legacy of unaccountable illegal conduct is about to come home.
Senior CIA officers could be put on trial in Britain after it emerged last
night that the Attorney General is to investigate allegations that a British
resident held in Guantanamo Bay was brutally tortured, after being arrested and
questioned by American forces following the terrorist attacks on New York and
Washington in 2001.
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has called the recent
turmoil in the global financial markets a "once in a century credit
tsunami". Speaking before Congress, Mr Greenspan, who stood down as Fed chairman
in 2006, said the crisis had left him "in a state of shocked
disbelief".
The Taliban beheaded their relatives and terrorized their villages. Now army airstrikes are killing the innocent, say refugees who fled fighting set off by a Pakistani military offensive against the Islamic extremists. The army maintains it is winning the war in the Bajur tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan.
ohn McCain and the Republican National Committee reported having a
combined $84 million as of last week to spend before Election Day,
according to reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election
Commission.
