Runners-Up: Soldiers, a kid, a despot’s brother, an actor, a rock star and a hero
Runners-up for top story of the month:
Five American soldiers in Iraq who reportedly took turns raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, after which they killed her, the girl's parents and her 5-year-old sister. The attack "followed a session of whiskey drinking and card-playing during which five soldiers plotted the…assault"250 yards from their post. U.S. soldiers are banned from drinking alcohol while in Iraq, but such geographic-centered Prohibition has been proven a failure time and again. Who among us doubts that alcohol and other-drug addicts are responsible for war's worst atrocities?
Brandon Menard, 21, a Boy Scout whose friends and remaining family were "dumbfounded"over his arrest for allegedly killing his parents and sister in Northridge, California. Headlines read, "Motive in killings remains ...
