UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 13 -- With an hour-long slide show that blends satellite imagery with disquieting assumptions about Iran's nuclear energy program, Bush administration officials have been trying to convince allies that Tehran is on a fast track toward nuclear weapons.

The accusation is not new, but Dr. Erica Frank of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta said she has calculated the cost, in terms of lives, of the Bush administration's terror policies.

In the War on Terror, we are all on the front lines. Now Southold has apparently been targeted by Al Qaeda. I'm not surprised.

By Ellen Knickmeyer
September 3, 2005
Washington Post

BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. military has dropped plans to boost its presence in Iraq by more than 20,000 troops to safeguard elections, a senior U.S. commander indicated Friday, with Hurricane Katrina putting demands on a force already stretched thin by the conflicts here and in Afghanistan.

Anyone interested in Iraq’s new Constitution would be advised to check out the film “Return to the Land of Wonders,” which focuses on the crafting of Iraq’s interim Constitution in the Spring of 2004. The documentary was shot by Maysoon Pachachi, the daughter of 82-year-old secular businessman Adnan Pachachi, a former Foreign Minister of Iraq who had spent more than 30 years in exile before the US military ousted Saddam’s regime.

Says US must prevent oil fields from falling into hands of terrorists

CORONADO, California - President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists.

by Raymond Whitaker and Andrew Buncombe
August 28, 2005
lndependent/UK

Weeks of bitter wrangling over Iraq's constitution ended in disarray yesterday, threatening the country with further violence and undermining efforts towards a timetable for American disengagement.

She was the Iraqi activist who became a symbol of the possibility of a brighter future for Iraq.

Back in February, with blue ink on her finger symbolizing the recent Iraqi election in which she had just voted, Safia Taleb al-Souhail was invited to sit with the first lady, Laura Bush, and listen to the President claim in his state of the union address that success was being achieved in Iraq. Her picture went round the world after she turned to hug Janet Norwood, a Texas woman whose son had been killed in Iraq.

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Jonathan Finer
August 28, 2005
Washington Post

BAGHDAD, Aug. 28 -- Iraqi Shiite Muslim leaders said early Sunday that they were ending negotiations on the country's constitution after months of increasingly divisive talks and planned to put the draft before the National Assembly later in the day, senior officials involved in the talks said.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 25 - Fighting erupted Wednesday between followers of the rebellious Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr and his opponents in the holy city of Najaf, killing at least four people and wounding at least 20, officials said.