Just a Review

I had save some various web pages over the last couple days to "blog later" -- never really got around to them but still think they are interesting....SO:

For all those who accuse the military is hiding any wrongdoing -- they are holding trials, convicting people, and producing criminal investigation reports. Not doing a good job if "hiding the information" is their intent.

• Army captain convicted of assaults on Iraqis

FORT CARSON, Colo. - An Army captain accused of terrorizing an Iraqi town under his supervision was convicted Wednesday of assaulting Iraqis, but acquitted of charges stemming from an alleged assault of one of his own soldiers.

• Army Details Scale of Abuse of Prisoners in an Afghan Jail

WASHINGTON, March 11 - Two Afghan prisoners who died in American custody in Afghanistan in December 2002 were chained to the ceiling, kicked and beaten by American soldiers in sustained assaults that caused their deaths, according to Army criminal investigative reports that have not yet been made public.

The Atlanta police admit there might have been some mistakes. You think -- they failed to find the car or the suspect at one of the first places they should have searched.

• Atlanta Police Concede Mistakes in Responding to Shooting

ATLANTA, March 18 (AP) - The city's embattled Police Department acknowledged Friday that it made mistakes just after the deadly courthouse rampage here a week ago, and the chief said the suspect had spent as much as 12 hours undetected outside a busy mall.

The police chief, Richard J. Pennington, said he would oversee a full review of his department's response to the attacks. Among the issues to be studied, Chief Pennington said, will be communication problems among law enforcement agencies and their mistaken focus on searching for a carjacked vehicle that they believed the accused, Brian Nichols, was using to flee.

Finally -- North Korea stays in the news!

• U.S., S.Korea to Push for Fresh North Nuclear Talks

SEOUL (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets with the strongest proponent for dialogue with communist North Korea when she consults with South Korean officials on Sunday to try to kick start stalled nuclear talks.
With U.S. impatience over the six-country talks rising, Rice in Tokyo on Saturday urged North Korea to return to dialogue immediately. She also said the United States had no intention of invading North Korea.

North Korea has rejected further talks with the United States until Rice retracts her labeling of Pyongyang as "an outpost of tyranny" as proof that Washington regarded it as a dialogue partner and not the enemy in an imminent war.