Few voting problems seen amid big turnout
Balloting in Tuesday's election was marked by long lines from record turnouts and voting equipment glitches but appeared free of significant claims of fraud or other chicanery that marred closely...
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Top excuses for unverified medals of valor
The Tribune contacted 54 of the individuals whose profiles in Who's Who claimed medals for valor that military records did not support. Fifteen admitted they lied. Of those who disputed...
Claims of medals amount to stolen valor
Scores of Americans, from clergymen to lawyers to CEOs, are claiming medals of valor they never earned. A Tribune investigation has found that the fabrication of heroic war records is...
Fake claims of war heroics a federal offense
Dick Agnew, a retired Army major, was hunting for a parking place at Dallas Ft. Worth International Airport when something stopped him cold. Agnew had just passed a car bearing...
New revelations in attack on American spy ship
Bryce Lockwood, Marine staff sergeant, Russian-language expert, recipient of the Silver Star for heroism, ordained Baptist minister, is shouting into the phone. "I'm angry! I'm seething with anger! Forty years,...
Italy says CIA may have had distorted view of cleric
In late 2002, the portrait of Abu Omar being painted by the CIA's Rome station for higher-ups at the agency's headquarters was that of a violent, hate-filled terrorist preparing to...
CIA chiefs reportedly split over cleric plot
The CIA chief in this northern Italian city opposed the intelligence agency's planned abduction of a radical Muslim cleric as ill-conceived and counterproductive, according to evidence gathered by prosecutors here....
Cleric’s story of abduction, torture
"This is how they kidnapped me from Italy ... and how they tortured and imprisoned me in Egypt." So begins a 6,300-word, handwritten letter, composed in an Egyptian prison cell...
Wife: Cleric offered $2 million deal
According to Abu Omar's wife, a few months ago two Egyptian officials visited her husband in his Cairo prison cell and made him an offer they hoped he wouldn't refuse....
Terror suspects appear in court
A tall, somewhat imposing figure in a white shirt, with a neatly trimmed beard and short hair, Ahmed Abdulah Ali sat in the dock at Westminster Magistrate's Court here Tuesday,...