A U.S. soldier opened fire on fellow troops at a counseling center inside a U.S. base Monday, killing five before being taken into custody, the U.S. command and Pentagon officials said.
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The shooting occurred at Camp Liberty, a sprawling U.S. base on the western edge of Baghdad near the city's international airport and adjacent to another facility where President Barack Obama visited last month.
A brief U.S. statement said the soldier "suspected of being involved with the shooting" was in custody but gave no further details. Nobody else was hurt, the military said. It was unclear what provoked the attack.
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Courtroom drama custody ruling
A seven year old boy was at the centre of a courtroom drama today when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him.
From a concurring opinion written by Roy Moore in a custody case in 2002. In this case, the father had been accused of abusing his children and the mother was petitioning the court for custody.
Volokh has a post about an ongoing legal battle for custody involving two state courts.
It started out as a church. Then the children were taken away because, according to authorities, they were being held in some sort of hareem of young girls for the church leader's pleasure. Now, they will probably start calling it a 'cult.' But it isn't. It's just a church.
I've always wondered what would happen if any one of those rifle-toting US soldiers standing along the DMZ in South Korea just snapped one day and shot one of his North Korean comrades across the border right in the face.
Scary, but it could happen.