 | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | |  | |  America's Tax-Cheating Politicians
More than 3,000 federal tax crimes were referred for prosecution in 2010, and a few of them happened to have an elected official as the defendant. With Tax Day coming up, The Daily Beast scours the records to find whether Democrats or Republicans have the worse tax problem.
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|  |  | |  Gaddafi Forces Bomb Civilian Areas
Col. Gaddafi's forces surrounding Misrata, Libya have been firing into residential neighborhoods with cluster bombs, which have been banned in much of the world, and other heavy weaponry, The New York Times reports. The bombs in use appeared to be 120-millimeter mortar projectiles which burst over the city and scatter high-explosive bomblets below. By nature, they are very imprecise, and place civilians at high risk when fired into populated areas. Gaddafi's forces have also been firing rockets known as GRADs into civilian areas. Each GRAD rocket, designed in the Soviet Union, is meant to shower a battlefield with multiple explosions. In Misrata, one of the GRAD rockets alone killed eight civilians. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she was not aware of the use of heavy weapons in Misrata, but that she was "not surprised by anything that Colonel Gaddafi and his forces do."
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