A day after the Israeli navy stormed an aid flotilla headed to Gaza, Israel held hundreds of activists on Tuesday as news reports said fresh attempts to ferry supplies might be made.
Officials believe that Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a top financial chief for Al Qaeda as well as one of the group’s founders, was killed in a U.S. attack in Pakistan.
The rejection is a setback for Prudential’s ambitions to expand, and could also hinder A.I.G.’s ability to repay $182 billion in U.S. government aid.
AP - Al-Qaida announced Monday that its No. 3 official, Mustafa al-Yazid, had been killed along with members of his family — perhaps one of the most severe blows to the terror movement since the U.S. campaign against al-Qaida began. A U.S. official said al-Yazid was believed to have died in a U.S. missile strike.
AP - The 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes, resembling oversized white shipping containers, are stacked two high and three wide atop a barge at Port Fourchon, the oil industry's hub on the Gulf of Mexico. The words "Martin Quarters" painted in black offer the only clue that they're not stuffed with cargo.
AP - The U.N. Security Council called early Tuesday for an "impartial" investigation of Israel's deadly commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and condemned the "acts" that resulted in the loss of at least nine lives.
The United Nations Security Council early Tuesday condemned the actions that led to deaths on a flotilla bound for Gaza, and called for a "transparent" investigation.
President Obama will meet Tuesday with the heads of a new commission created to investigate how to prevent future oil spills like the devastating leak from BP's Gulf of Mexico well.
After 41 years in business, the Schaefer family have pretty much seen it all. Good times when business was booming, and tougher years that brought Hurricanes like Katrina and Ike. Now, a man-made oil disaster is trying the Gulf Coast, and the Schaefer family is in crisis mode -- again.