Billions of Dollars in Damage Followed by Billions of Dollars in Fraud

August 28, 2006 --

Katrina One Year Later
(ABC News)

New Facts Emerge in Terror Plot
On Aug. 9, in a small apartment in east London, two young Muslim men recorded a video justifying what the police say was their suicide plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes: revenge against the United States and their "accomplices," Britain and the Jews. [This story published in this morning's print edition of the New York Times has not yet been made available on NYT.com. An abbreviated version can be found at (Toronto Star)]

Homicide Charges Rare in Iraq War
The majority of U.S. service members charged in the unlawful deaths of Iraqi civilians have been acquitted, found guilty of relatively minor offenses or given administrative punishments without trials, according to a Washington Post review of concluded military cases. Charges against some of the troops were dropped completely. (Washington Post)