Yahoo: "The U.S. public can see images of the Iraq war on television that are so potentially disturbing the Pentagon has warned soldiers it may cause them to relive the trauma of war.
'Baghdad ER', a documentary airing on the cable TV network HBO, features graphic scenes from a combat hospital emergency room."
(Watch the trailer on the link.)
10:46:49 AM
Guardian: "The former Liberal Democrat environmental spokesman Norman Baker revealed his decision to stand down from the shadow cabinet two months ago was based on a quest to establish the truth behind Dr Kelly's death.
Mr Baker said he wanted to return to the issue because the 2003 Hutton inquiry had 'blatantly failed to get to the bottom of matters'.
'It was not carried out using proper rules of evidence, people were not giving evidence under oath and the whole thing became a criticism of the BBC.'"
The case was never satisfactorily solved.
10:39:43 AM
Observer: "Tony Blair and his cabinet are sitting on a gold-plated pension pot worth in excess of £25m that will allow them to retire at 60, The Observer can reveal.
The disclosure will be embarrassing coming days ahead of the publication of the government's Pensions White Paper that will propose raising the retirement ages for both men and women to 68 to alleviate widespread pension poverty.
An analysis of the cabinet's very generous pension packages show that ministers can retire at 60 with lucrative million-pound-plus pension provisions paying them at least £50,000 a year inflation-proofed for the rest of their lives."
10:21:52 AM
