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September 05, 2012 | | Bubba's Big Speech It's Bill Clinton day at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, where the 42nd president is poised to take the stage tonight for a rousing endorsement of sometime frenemy Barack Obama. What will Bubba say? The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove talks to Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff and now the mayor of crime-rattled Chicago about the Big Dog’s big speech. Plus, full coverage of the Democratic National Convention. GREEN ON BLUE Investigations into attacks by uniformed Afghan police and military on international troops – or “green on blue” attacks – resulted in the firing of hundreds of Afghan soldiers on Wednesday. “Based on our investigations, hundreds of Afghan army soldiers have been detained and sacked from the army over the incident of insider attacks,” according to Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Zahir Azimi. “This is a big concern for the Afghan president and the Afghan Defense Ministry.” This week, American troops halted the instruction of police recruits while background checks are ongoing. 114 people have been killed in 76 green on blue attacks since 2007, according to the NATO coalition in Afghanistan. ‘QUEEN OF COCAINE’ Griselda Blanco, a.k.a. the ‘Queen of Cocaine,’ was shot to death in Colombia this week. Mac Margolis on the matronly drug lord’s life as a gangster. HIZZONER Tough as a handful of nails and three times as sharp, Rahm Emanuel’s announcement Wednesday that he’ll drop his honorary chairmanship of the Obama campaign and hit the fundraising trail for the Democrats is a sign that they’re pulling out the big guns as they fight the GOP’s money lead going into the home stretch of the 2012 election cycle. Officials for challenger Mitt Romney’s campaign and the Republican National Committee announced that they raised $100 million in August. Glenn Thrush of Politico reported that Emanuel lobbied top Dems to establish a super PAC that could close the Republican advantage—a proposal that was rejected. WARNING According to the Red Cross, at least two people are dead and 20 are injured after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Costa Rica on Wednesday. At least 60 aftershocks have also been reported after the quake shook buildings and cut power to some areas of the San Jose capital. While the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center at first issued a tsunami alert for the entire Caribbean, the center quickly retracted that warning, saying that it was meant for the Pacific. | | 
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