Thursday, February 22, 2007
The Situation Online: Egyptian blogger jailed, space vacations
Blogger was convicted of insulting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
An Egyptian judge has
sentenced 22-year-old Abdel Karim Suleiman to four years in prison for insulting Islam and criticizing Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak on
his blog.
Human rights groups and
fellow bloggers are condemning the action, and the State Department is also "very concerned," saying today that free speech is "critical" to democracy in the Middle East.
Galactic partnershipHow much would you pay for a flight into space?
NASA and
Virgin Galactic have signed an
agreement to explore
future collaboration in developing space suits, rocket motors, and other space technologies. The agreement puts Virgin Galactic one step closer to becoming the first commercial "spaceline." Flight reservations are currently selling for $200,000.
Watch "The Situation Room" at 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM, and 7:00 PM ET for these stories and more from our Internet reporters.Monday, February 19, 2007
The Situation Online: JFK, Dems in Denver, Madrid, JetBlue
This image made from a home video released Monday shows JFK and his wife moments before his assassination.
Haunting
new footage of John F. Kennedy's final moments
has just surfaced online. The
newly discovered video, donated to a
Dallas museum, shows President Kennedy and the first lady in their Dallas motorcade seconds before the President was shot.
Will the real Democratic Convention Web site please stand up?Will the 2008 Democratic National Convention look anything like the infamous
1968 Democratic convention in Chicago? A group of liberal political activiists are using an unusual Internet tactic to make sure their voices are heard next year in Denver. While the official site of the convention's host committee is
DemocraticConvention2008.com, a
number of Web addresses with key words related to the 2008 convention all redirect to
recreate68.org, an organizing hub for several convention protesters.
Madrid bombing trial onlineToday at the
Madrid train bombing trial, three of the twenty nine defendants
denied playing any role in the 2004 attacks that killed 191 people. Because of the high public attention being paid to the proceedings, officials are
streaming the entire trial online for free. The
Web site is only available in Spanish, but they do plan on translating the proceedings into English in the coming weeks.
Jet Blues
After a week of
cancellations and an incident leaving hundreds of passengers stranded on the tarmac at JFK airport in New York for more than eight hours, JetBlue has announced they will unveil a "Customer Bill of Rights" tomorrow. One victim of the stranded Valentine's Day flight has launched a
Web site and
MySpace community in an effort to rally together the flight's passengers and fight back against JetBlue.
Watch "The Situation Room" at 4 PM, 5 PM, and 7 PM ET for these stories and more from our Internet reporters.
