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NIGERIA News:
Dick
Cheney -  Criminal
- KBR/Halliburton
-  Corporation
-  Government
-  Politics
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-  Military
-  People
-  Texas
-  US
-  Iraq
- Nigeria
-  Oil
-  Construction
"KBR wins contract despite criminal probe of deaths." ... "Defense contractor KBR Inc. [Incorporated] has been awarded a $35 million Pentagon contract involving major electrical work, even as it is under criminal investigation in the electrocution deaths of at least two [United States] U.S. soldiers in Iraq." ... "The announcement of the new KBR contract came just months after the Pentagon, in strongly worded correspondence obtained by The Associated Press, rejected the company's explanation of serious mistakes in Iraq and its proposed improvements. A senior Pentagon official, David J. Graff, cited the company's "continuing quality deficiencies" and said KBR executives were "not sufficiently in touch with the urgency or realities of what was actually occurring on the ground."" ... ""Many within DOD (the Department of Defense) have lost or are losing all remaining confidence in KBR's ability to successfully and repeatedly perform the required electrical support services mission in Iraq," wrote Graff, commander of the Defense Contract Management Agency, in a [September] Sept. 30 letter." ... "Graff rejected the company's claims that it wasn't required to follow U.S. electrical codes for its work on U.S. military facilities in Iraq." ... "The deaths of [Staff Sergeant Christopher Lee] Everett and [Staff Sergeant Ryan] Maseth are among the 18 under review by the Pentagon's inspector general." ... "KBR was previously owned by Halliburton Co. [Company], the oil services conglomerate that former [Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney once led." ... "Separately, court papers filed in Houston [Texas] on Friday show KBR is preparing to plead guilty to federal bribery charges for promising and paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to officials in Nigeria in exchange for engineering and construction contracts between 1995 and 2004." -By Kimberly Hefling -AP via -Yahoo 
 McCain
-  Charles
R Black Jr -  Foreign
- Money
- Politics
- Human
Rights - 2008
Election -  Arizona
- US
-  Pakistan
-  Angola
-  Philippines
-  Zaire
now: Democratic Republic of the Congo - Nigeria
-  Somalia
-  Kenya
"Terror Strike Would Help McCain, Top Adviser Says." ... "A top adviser to [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain said that a terrorist attack in the United States would be a political benefit to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a comment that was immediately disputed by the candidate and denounced by his Democratic rival." ... "Charles R. Black Jr., one of McCain's most senior political advisers, said in an interview with Fortune magazine that a fresh terrorist attack "certainly would be a big advantage to him." He also said that the December assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, while "unfortunate," helped McCain win the Republican primary by focusing attention on national security." ... "The comment reinjected the fear of terrorism into the campaign as both candidates had been shifting their conversation to the economy and $4-per-gallon gasoline." ... "The comments also returned the political spotlight to McCain's advisers and, in particular, to Black, who has drawn criticism for his long lobbying career and his representation of controversial foreign governments. McCain has been criticized for surrounding himself with top advisers who were lobbyists." ... "Black and his lobbying partners were at times registered foreign agents for a collection of U.S.-backed foreign leaders whose human rights records were sometimes harshly criticized, even as American conservatives embraced their opposition to communism. They included Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, Nigerian [General] Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre, and the countries of Kenya and Equatorial Guinea, among others." (1, 2) -By Michael D. Shear with contributions by Karl Vick and Alice Crites -WashingtonPost 
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- "Miss
Turkey [Azra Akin] Wins Miss World Competition:
Miss Turkey Crowned Miss World in Pageant That Was Moved to London After
Riots in Nigeria." ... "Ninety-two contestants took part in the show, which
was shunted to London after Muslim-Christian rioting last month killed
more than 200 people, forcing it out of Nigeria." ... "The pageant's motto
is "beauty with a purpose," and among this year's contestants were lawyers,
businesswomen, architects and a doctor." ... "Unlike the pageant's heyday
in the 1970s, this year's contestants glided along the catwalk in evening
gowns rather than swimsuits part of an effort to shed the show's sexist
image." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
- "Nigerian
state stands firm on Sharia: "Support Sharia,
Allah's Law is Supreme," says a road sign on the way into the northwestern
Nigerian city of Gusau." ... "Sharia, the Islamic penal code, is certainly
a force to be reckoned with in Gusau, the capital of Zamfara state." ...
"Last week the state's deputy governor declared a fatwa religious edict
calling for the death of a Nigerian journalist for alleged blasphemy over
an article at the centre of a recent controversy surrounding the Miss World
beauty pageant." ... "The authorities seem to be standing firm, despite
the fact that Nigeria's two main Islamic bodies and religious leaders in
Saudi Arabia have harshly criticized the order."
-Reuters via -CNN
/World
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- "Nigerian
state issues death threat on Miss World journalist."
... "A Nigerian state has ordered Muslims to kill a journalist whose report
on the Miss World contest led to riots in which 200 people died." ... "An
Islamic fatwa has been decreed against Isioma Daniel, whose article in
the This Day newspaper suggested that if the prophet Mohammed were alive
today, he would have wanted to marry one of the Miss World contestants."
... "Violence erupted in Nigeria last week when the article angered Muslim
fundamentalists." ... "Estimates suggest that besides the 200 people killed,
1,200 have been hospitalised and 12,000 made homeless as a result of the
riots." -By Julia Day
-Guardian.co.uk /media
