Osama bin Laden's driver told an FBI interrogator that he overheard the al Qaeda founder's glee at the casualty count in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a former FBI agent testified at the war court Wednesday.
The Pentagon opened its first war-crimes prosecution Tuesday with words purportedly from the mouth of Osama bin Laden, a ghoulish postmortem overheard by his driver in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks:
TEXAS | HURRICANE DOLLY
McALLEN, Texas -- Dolly spun into a hurricane Tuesday, heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley, where officials feared heavy rains could cause massive flooding and levee breaks.
CAPITOL HILL
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, echoing his message from a weekslong advertising blitz, urged Congress on Tuesday to embrace a largely untapped potential of wind power to help free the United States from its dependence on foreign oil.
Last month, it was the alleged 9/11 mastermind who censored a Guantánamo war court sketch artist. Tuesday, U.S. Special Forces were the censors.
He marched past the palm trees, the headstones, the limousine and the hearse. A family stepped out of the limo. A flag-draped coffin was carried from the hearse. Three riflemen shot three volleys into the air. And then it was his time to play the somber song of Americana, a tune etched in our collective memory but fading away from singular moments like this.
As Barack Obama heads into the world's most complicated region in a bid to establish his foreign-policy credentials as a presidential hopeful, Israelis and Palestinians are voicing a mixture of hope, skepticism and curiosity.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Travelers, be aware: Your full-blown image -- private parts and all -- could soon be visible to a security officer, on-screen, at an airport near you.
TROPICAL STORM DOLLY
Parts of South Texas and Northwest Mexico are under hurricane watches as a fast-moving tropical storm churns over warm water in the Gulf of Mexico.
Osama bin Laden's driver went on trial Monday with a not-guilty plea -- after his military judge excluded ''coercive'' interrogations in Afghanistan -- before a six-officer military jury. It's the first U.S. war crimes tribunal since World War II.
THE ECONOMY
Come December, putting a holiday roast on the table will likely put a squeeze on pocketbooks. ''You think you've seen food inflation and inflation at the meat counter?'' asked Gregg Doud, chief economist for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association in Washington, D.C. ``You haven't seen anything yet. We're just getting warmed up.''
NEWS ANALYSIS | THE WHITE HOUSE
The White House wants the American public to think it's on the rebound, scoring important triumphs in Iraq and North Korea and on domestic spying while taking tough stands on oil drilling and relief for homeowners.
DEFENSE SPENDING
John McCain and Barack Obama vow to reform the nation's defense procurement if elected president, yet each is unwilling to take a firm stand against the skyrocketing cost of a plum White House perk: the new Marine One helicopter.
WEATHER
Parts of Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia could get hit with storms and gusty winds Saturday as the makings of a tropical weather system formed in the Atlantic.
HEALTH
More than a quarter of Americans describe themselves as obese, and in three states -- Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee -- more than 30 percent do, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
