All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The Washington Post:
Louisiana officials called on the Obama administration Thursday to compensate residents after a federal judge's ruling that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for some of the worst flooding in and around New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. ( read the article)

AP:
erman prosecutors investigating match-fixing in soccer say 15 people in Germany and two in Switzerland have been arrested and about 200 games in Europe are under suspicion. ( read the article)

The Boston Globe:
Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned Al Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence. ( read the article)

Washington Post:

Scores of Cubans have been detained as political prisoners since Raul Castro assumed power three years ago, a human-rights organization reported Wednesday, suggesting that there has been little change in the repressive system that existed under his brother Fidel. ( read the article)

BBC:

Two suspected computer hackers have been arrested in Manchester in a major inquiry into a global internet scam designed to steal personal details. ( read the article)

CBS/AP:
The Defense Department will launch a broad investigation in light of the Fort Hood shootings that looks at how all the U.S. military services keep a watch on potential problems in their ranks. (read the article)

Reuters:

Ethiopia should investigate allegations that local officials are keeping food aid from opposition members to force them to join the ruling party ahead of national elections, a British aid minister said on Tuesday.
(read the article)

< http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/09/libya.jail/> CNN:
As we first stepped into Libya's forbidding Abu Salim jail we had no idea what to expect.
We'd been negotiating for a year to get in, we'd had meetings in cafes, hotels, on street corners; we'd sent emails, countless text messages and phone calls.
(read the article)

CNN:
A former vice president of the Blackwater private security company said he was "unaware of any plot or guidance for Blackwater to bribe Iraqi officials" as rage erupted over the killings of 17 civilians by the company's security guards more than two years ago. (read the article)

CBS/AP:
The mystery over whether the military knew Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan was communicating with a radical Muslim imam lapsed into finger-pointing ahead of congressional investigations looking into the Army psychiatrist's contacts with any extremists. (read the article)