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"Starting today, afternoon and evening service on New York's most complained about route will increase by 25 percent. DNAinfo reports that, in addition to more trains, riders can look forward to "public announcement systems at all 12 G train stations, trains that run at more evenly stopped intervals and trains that stop in the same place on platforms," just like on a real subway line."
"Karachi's Airport has resumed operations today, but a deadly late night attack shut it down for many hours overnight. It appears that ten militants entered the airport Sunday night, most likely uniformed as airport security personnel, and killed up to 18 people before they were killed by airport security and rapidly responding military units. The TTP, Pakistan's Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the attack. The New York Times and Reuters, however, chose to be very selective in how they reported the TTP's claim of responsibility. Both news outlets left out the TTP's prominent mention of the US drone strike in November that killed TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud in describing the TTP's reasons for the attack. By contrast, AP and the Washington Post included the TTP's reference to the drone strike."
In the June issue, Harper's Magazine has published the eyewitness account of a military policeman describing the events of the night of June 9, 2006, at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, when three prisoners died under mysterious circumstances that the U.S. government has sought to pass off as a series of synchronized suicides. The account is one of a group of previously unnoted documents, uncovered by researchers at Seton Hall Law School, that collectively demonstrate that the government's own investigation did not support its claims about the deaths. They are the subject of a new report, Uncovering the Cover Ups: Death Camp in Delta. I put six questions to Professor Mark Denbeaux about the report:
