AFP - The war in Iraq will cost US taxpayers at least three trillion dollars, a respected, Nobel Prize-winning economist wrote in a new book which was excerpted in the US press this week.
AP - The militant group that has claimed the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq has responded to pleas for their release by saying the British government is at fault for its decision to participate in the Iraq invasion, a group that tracks Islamic militant Web sites said Monday.
Reuters - They live a world apart in the same
sprawling city.
AFP - Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer Monday accused China of fabricating alleged plots against the Olympics, and even of scheming to carry out its own terror attacks, to blacken her community's name.
AFP - The use of torture to extract evidence from detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has tarnished the US legal system's image and alienated allies in the war on terror, a rights group said Monday.
AP - As of Monday, March 10, 2008, at least 3,980 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,237 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AP - A Danish court on Monday acquitted a teenager for a second time of charges that he took part in a botched terrorism plot to blow up an unidentified target in Europe.
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON? An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.
Reuters - U.S. military commission trials of
Guantanamo terrorism suspects will be tainted by coercive
tactics such as waterboarding used to obtain evidence and
should be scrapped, human rights groups said on Monday.
AP - A suicide bomber killed five U.S. soldiers as they chatted with shop owners while on a foot patrol in central Baghdad on Monday, the deadliest attack on American forces in the heavily fortified capital in more than eight months.