All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The Wall Street Journal:

Scottish authorities are searching for new lines of inquiry in the Lockerbie bombing case, including a search for possible accomplices, now that convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has dropped his appeal, according to Scottish officials.
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CBS News:
Cold case detectives were flooded with calls Friday from members of the public claiming they or long-dead relatives were victims of a man police believe is a serial rapist and killer.
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BBC News:
Iraqi security forces say they have captured leading Sunni militant Tha'ir Kadhim Sraiwi.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Sgt. 1st Class Patrick Henderson, a strapping Iraq combat veteran, spent the last, miserable months of his life as an Army recruiter, cold-calling dozens of people a day from his strip-mall office and sitting in strangers' living rooms, trying to sign up their sons and daughters for an unpopular war.
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Bloomberg:
Pakistan is seeking ``leads'' from India to help with investigations into last month's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
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Bloomberg:
Mattel Inc., the worldʼs biggest toymaker, agreed to pay $12 million to 39 U.S. states to settle claims it shipped toys tainted with lead paint, according to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.
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Xinhua:
Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini will lead an EU investigation into the origin and progression of the Georgia-Russia conflict in August, the official Swissinfo news website reported Friday.
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Reuters:
Iraqi security forces arrested a son of the leader of the country's main Sunni Arab political bloc at his house in Baghdad on Tuesday evening, accusing him of terrorism, the politician said.
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AP:
Al Qaeda yesterday confirmed the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago. Abu Khabab al Masri had a $5-million bounty on his head from the United States, and was believed to have been killed in a suspected U.S. airstrike in Pakistan last week.
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CBS/AP:
A soldier at Fort Bragg in North Carolina is a person of interest in the death of a pregnant servicewoman whose body was found in a motel bathtub a week ago, a military spokesman said over the weekend.
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