Unfrigging believable.

judge halts Iraq war objector’s court-martial

A federal court judge has temporarily blocked a court-martial scheduled to start Tuesday for an Iraq war objector based at Fort Lewis.

First Lt. Ehren Watada is charged with refusing to deploy to Iraq. His lawyers argue the Army is violating his constitutional rights by trying him twice for the same crime.

U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle ruled he has jurisdiction to issue the stay and that Watada's double-jeopardy claim is not frivolous

The matter is under appeal in the Military Court systems, the Judge should have stayed out of it until that appeal was exhausted..

This is just wrong.

A'jad has a new idea for removing Israelis from the Middle East.  Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, using the occasion of Tehran's al Quds Day celebrations, suggested relocating all Israelis to the North Slope of Alaska and the Northern regions of Canada.  Links to story and a Reuters slide show of al Quds Day celebrations around the world here.

The media hopped all over this tape, but it honestly shows little and supports the police account more then not. 

Surveillance Video: Gotbaum's Last Moments At Phoenix Airport-  Attorney: Police Actions May Have Killed 45-Year-Old

CBS 2 HD has obtained surveillance video showing three different angles of last week's arrest of Carol Anne Gotbaum at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix.

The video shows the daughter-in-law of New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum reacting after learning she had missed her flight. It also shows Phoenix police officers move in on her, take her to the ground and arrest her.

Different angles show officers taking Gotbaum to a holding cell, where she later died mysteriously.

On the morning of Sept. 29, Gotbaum left her Upper West Side home, brought her children to school and flew off to Arizona. Plagued by a history of drinking and depression, she headed for an alcohol rehabilitation program in Tucson.