SANTA ANA, Calif. — Eamonn Higgins has never earned a college degree in his own name, but prosecutors allege that for the past seven years the 46-year-old has been going to school non-stop for dozens of other students.
Archive for the ‘Perilous Times’ Category
Feds: Calif. man ran student visa fraud ring
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Forget about brandy and bourbon, ghosts are this year’s must-have spirit
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren’t aged brandies or hard-to-find liqueurs.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a ‘big lie’
Monday, March 8th, 2010TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a “big lie” used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported.
“Rahm is the devil’s spawn”
Monday, March 8th, 2010Whatever he has done or not done, I will miss Eric Massa, for no other reason than his gift with a phrase.
Al-Qaida calls on US Muslims to attack America
Monday, March 8th, 2010
FILE – Adam Gadahn, seen in these undated file photos released by the FBI. The American-born Al-Qaida spokesman called on Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood in a video posted on a radical Islamic web site on Sunday March 7, 2010. Gadahn, who was raised in California, describes Maj. Nidal Hasan as a pioneer who should serve as a role model for other Muslims. (AP Photo/photos released by the FBI, File)
CAIRO – Al-Qaida’s American-born spokesman on Sunday called on Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood.
Iran to build nuke facilities ‘inside mountains’
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Move appears to be aimed at shielding sites from potential military attack
Egyptian presidential hopeful steps up
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
BEIRUT, Lebanon, — Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed ElBaradei got a hero’s welcome when he returned to his native Egypt as a possible contender for the presidency, a politically explosive challenge to the country’s power elite.
Health care push loses jobs component
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Obama’s new plan makes little reference to economy as agenda shifts
Inspectors Say Iran Worked on Warhead
Friday, February 19th, 2010WASHINGTON — The United Nations’ nuclear inspectors declared for the first time on Thursday that they had extensive evidence of “past or current undisclosed activities” by Iran’s military to develop a nuclear warhead, an unusually strongly worded conclusion that seems certain to accelerate Iran’s confrontation with the United States and other Western countries.
Iran defiant as Russia joins US and France in nuclear sanctions push
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Russia joined America and France in open criticism of Iran’s nuclear programme as China came under pressure not to block a move to tighten UN sanctions on the Islamic Republic.