Patient dies in robot-aided surgery:

“An experienced doctor looking at a three-dimensional computer screen manipulated a robot with three mechanical arms used to cut blood vessels and remove a cancerous kidney from Al Greenway, Plant High School teacher.

The procedure is considered less invasive than traditional surgery and is supposed to decrease a patient’s bleeding, pain and recovery time.

But something went terribly wrong.

During the surgery, Greenway’s aorta and another blood vessel supplying the kidney were accidentally cut. No one noticed for about 90 minutes. Two days later, on Oct. 13, Greenway died of complications from the surgery.” St Petersburg Times

Action’s Legality, Effectiveness Questioned:

“Hijazi’s citizenship highlights the different approaches pursued simultaneously by the administration as it wages its war on terror. In some cases since Sept. 11, American citizens have been arrested and afforded traditional legal rights in the criminal justice system. In others, they have been captured and held indefinitely in military brigs as “enemy combatants.” Now, at least in Hijazi’s case, a citizen has been killed in a covert military action.

What’s more, Hijazi was killed in a country considered at peace with the United States, although U.S. officials say the strike was carried out with the approval and cooperation of Yemen’s government.

It was unclear whether the CIA operatives who fired the missile knew that an American citizen was among their targets. It also was unclear whether that would have made any difference.” CommonDreams

“There are seven sins in the world: wealth without work, pleasure without

conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science

without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without

principle.” – Mahatma Gandhi