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The victim reported the attack after she was beaten so badly she had to be treated at the hospital. That’s when the sheriff’s office started looking into it and learned about the video.

The sheriff calls it shocking, saying he’s never seen anything like it. It was a vicious attack all captured on home video inside a Polk County home.

When 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay arrived at her friend’s house where she had been staying, six girls were waiting. Immediately, they started yelling and one girl began pummeling the victim.

Time Magazine

Monday, May. 12, 1941
Holy Skirmish

With a terrible, pregnant symbolism, World War II jumped last week from the birthplace of democracy to the birthplace of mankind. Five days after Athens fell, fighting broke out in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden. In its beginning the new conflict was a minor embarrassment to Britain; in its potentialities it was a threat as serious as any the British Empire had yet suffered.

A few days before Germany’s Balkan campaign, a pro-German Arab nationalist, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani, overthrew five-year-old Monarch Feisal II’s pro-British Regent. Because of the threat implicit in this coup, the British sent 1,200 troops to Basra, Iraq’s main port, at the head of the Persian Gulf. El-Gailani acquiesced in the landing and publicly subscribed to the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty of Alliance which justified it (”The aid of . . . Iraq in the event of war or the imminent menace of war will consist in . . . use of railways, rivers, ports, aerodromes and means of communication”).

(CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton’s advisers blasted Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign Monday after a major Obama supporter referenced the blue dress that was at the heart of former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal.

Sen. John McCain, back from his trip to the Middle East and Europe, heads to California for fundraisers.

 Gordon Fischer, a former chair of the Iowa Democratic Party and part of Obama’s Iowa support team, also compared Bill Clinton unfavorably to Joe McCarthy.

McCarthy was a senator who was known for leveling accusations that people were Communists or spying for the Russians in the 1950s.

“When Joe McCarthy questioned others’ patriotism,

(CNN) — The State Department said Friday that all three presidential candidates’ passport files were breached.

Sen. Barack Obama’s passport file was breached three times since January, the State Department said.

The admission comes after it was revealed Sen. Barack Obama’s files had been viewed three times by contractors. One of the contractors also viewed the files of Republican Sen. John McCain, said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.

Earlier Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s office said that the State Department had notified it that her file had been breached in 2007.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she had apologized to Obama for the unauthorized viewing of his passport file by State Department contractors.

It was unknown Friday whether Rice had apologized to Clinton and McCain.

Two contractors were fired and a third was disciplined after they accessed Obama’s file, McCormack said Thursday.

Rice told also said that the breaches would be investigated.

“I told him I was sorry and I told him that I myself would be very disturbed in anyone had looked at my passport files and that, therefore, I will stay on top of this,” Rice said.

“We are going to do an investigation through the inspector general,” she said.

In a new audio message purportedly from Osama Bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader threatens the EU over the re-printing of a cartoon offensive to Muslims.
The voice on it says the cartoon, re-published recently in all major Danish newspapers, was part of a crusade involving Pope Benedict XVI.

The drawing, first published in 2005, depicts the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.

The voice on the audio has not yet been verified as belonging to Bin Laden.

DENVER, Colorado (CNN) — On a good day, Keri Christensen spends the day watching her children. She prepares their meals, gets them ready for school and helps them with their homework.

Keri Christensen was nearly a victim of a roadside bombing in Iraq when the convoy in front of hers was hit.

1 of 3 But this housewife and mother of two is far different than most of the women living in her Denver, Colorado, suburb.

She’s an Iraqi war veteran, among the first women in the United States to be classified as combat veterans.

Even though she’s been home from the war for more than 2½ years, she’s now fighting another battle — this one with depression, nightmares, sleeplessness and anger. She says all of it is caused by her time in Iraq.

“I start feeling those feelings of ‘I’m not worthy. I can’t raise my family,’ ” Christensen said.