What We've Found: Animal cruelty, self-suckling macaques, resentful tribal leaders, Afghan attack, Israeli stays home and a (not so) explosive visitor to Philly police station

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What We've Found: Animal cruelty, self-suckling macaques, resentful tribal leaders, Afghan attack, Israeli stays home and a (not so) explosive visitor to Philly police station

POSTED: Monday, October 5, 2009, 2:55 PM
Filed Under: What We've Found

Julia Harte with your morning fix.

The U.S. Supreme Court was preparing to take on a Western Pennsylvania case against a man convicted but later acquitted of unlawful cruelty to animals in his dogfighting videos.

Bereaved female macaque monkeys in Morocco were observed to drink their own milk, possibly to relieve stress or boost their immune systems. One macaque self-suckled for 106 straight days after her infant died.

Iraqi tribal leaders who helped the U.S. army fight insurgents were feeling abandoned after the abrupt departure of American troops from Anbar province, complaining that U.S. soldiers didn't even say goodbye and that the British were better occupiers.

Eight U.S. troops and three Afghan soldiers were killed over the weekend in the densely forested Afghan province of Nuristan: one of the deadliest attacks yet launched against an American base in the country.

Afraid he'd be arrested for dropping a one-ton bomb on a densely populated area of Gaza in 2002 to kill a single militant, Israeli minister and foreign military chief Moshe Yaalon canceled a visit to the United Kingdom.

A Philadelphia man brought a 32-year-old live shell into a police station on Saturday to dispose of it but failed to call ahead, causing the station to briefly evacuate and call in the city's Bomb Squad.


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