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...And, Barack Obama admitted his work with Bill Ayers gave him his credentials for public office.

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IRAQ: Court revives suits against Halliburton in truckers' deaths

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived lawsuits against military contractors over a deadly ambush that killed civilian truck drivers in Iraq.

The suits filed by truckers and their families accuse Halliburton and a former subsidiary, Houston-based KBR, of knowingly sending a convoy into a dangerous area where six KBR drivers were killed and several others wounded on April 9, 2004.

A federal judge in Houston threw out the lawsuits in September 2006, saying the judiciary can't second-guess the military's battlefield decisions.

But the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed that judge's ruling on Wednesday and sent the three cases back to the lower court for further proceedings.

A three-judge panel from the appeals court said it may be possible to resolve the lawsuits without making a "constitutionally impermissible review of wartime decision-making."

Cases spawned in a war zone involve constitutional issues and "practical considerations" that can prevent them from being resolved in court, Judge Leslie Southwick wrote in the panel's 29-page ruling.

"It appears, though, that these tort-based claims of civilian employees against their civilian employers can be separated from the political questions that loom so large in the background," Southwick added."

The 5th Circuit said the cases could still run into a constitutional roadblock as they progress.

"The litigation is not yet there, if it ever will be," Southwick wrote.

KBR split from Halliburton last year and operates as a separate, publicly traded company. At least 110 of KBR's employees have been killed in Iraq since it started working there under a multibillion-dollar military contract in 2003.

KBR spokeswoman Heather Browne said the company hadn't seen the ruling yet and couldn't comment on it.

Halliburton spokeswoman Cathy Mann said she couldn't comment on the ruling because "defense of this lawsuit is KBR's responsibility."

Several lawyers for truck drivers' families didn't immediately return calls for comment Wednesday evening.





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Alleged Hijacker Booked On Post-9/11 Flights

Astounding newly released FBI documents obtained via the Freedom Of Information Act show that alleged 9/11 hijacker Hamza Al-Ghamdi had booked future flights to San Francisco and Riyadh, suggesting that he was unaware of his eventual fate aboard United Airlines Flight 175, the plane that hit the World Trade Center's south tower.

The papers consist of a 300 page Federal Bureau of Investigation timeline that was used by the 9/11 Commission but not made public until now.

The 9/11 Commission failed to mention in its final report that Al-Ghamdi was booked onto several flights scheduled to take place after 9/11, including another flight on the very day of the attacks.

The fact that Al-Ghamdi had booked post-9/11 flights obviously gives rise to doubts about whether the alleged hijacker knew the 9/11 attack was a suicide mission and even brings into question if he was on the flight at all.

Citing “UA passenger information," on page 288 under an entry pertaining to “H AlGhamdi,” the FBI timeline reads: "Future flight. Scheduled to depart Los Angeles International Airport for San Francisco International Airport on UA 7950," reports Raw Story (excerpt below).

Al-Ghamdi was also booked to fly on September 20, 2001 from Casablanca, Morocco to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and September 29, where he planned to fly from Riyadh to Damman, Saudi Arabia.

The FBI timeline documents also contradict with several other details of the 9/11 Commission Report, notably on the movements of alleged Flight 77 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar.