Random News & Views Roundup

- was the recent Gitmo 'uprising' real or was it just a staged Bush propaganda event?

- Saturday's war toll:

Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of Afghan government forces on Saturday, killing at least 16 people, including two French soldiers and four Afghan troops.

In a separate incident, a U.S. soldier was killed and six wounded in the Uruzgan region of southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.

Thirty-four foreign soldiers have been killed in Afghan combat this year, 24 of them Americans. In all, more than 600 people have been killed in violence this year.
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Meanwhile, in Iraq, bombs killed 24 people Saturday as strife between the Sunni and the Shiite minority heated up. One bomb killed at least 19 people and injured 58 in Baghdad's Shiite area, while a suicide bomber killed five policemen in the Sunni town of Qaim.

- Mayor Ray Nagin has been re-elected in New Orleans.

- Ray McGovern asks, 'Should Gen. Hayden Be Confirmed or Court-Martialed?'

- Saturday nite FBI raid in Washington, DC:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the unusual raid at the Rayburn House Office Building on Washington's Capitol Hill but would not say whose office was searched.

"Agents of the FBI's Washington field office executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15," Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said.

Weierman said the search warrant was sealed and she could not confirm whose office was being searched.

But two lawmakers under investigation in separate bribery scandals have offices in the Rayburn building -- Jefferson and Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney.

I was kind of hoping they were looking for Rep Dana Rohrabacher of the 'let's cut off all illegal immigrants benefits and they'll eventually just leave the country' fame.

- Rove still hasn't been indicted. (Just thought I'd throw that in here).

- Juan Cole speaks up about the National Post's now-debunked Iranian badges for religious minorities story. Some right-wing bloggers just won't let go of it because they so desperately want it to be true.

- Iraq finally has some cabinet ministers. Can the coalition troops go home now?

- I hate my computer. That's not really news. It's more of a "views" kind of thing. I should start a Paypal account to collect alms for the poor (me).