AP - As of Thursday, March 13, 2008, at least 3,987 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 3,238 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AFP - US veterans and active-duty soldiers on Thursday kicked off an event in Washington to protest the war in Iraq, urging other members of the military to join them in speaking out against the conflict.
AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of implementing policies he claimed were part of an "ethnic cleansing" campaign in the Palestinian areas of Jerusalem.
Reuters - The running of secret CIA prisons for terrorism suspects makes a mockery of international law, Amnesty International said on Friday in a case study of a Yemeni man who was held incommunicado for more than 2-1/2 years.
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD? An explosion tore through a men's garment district Thursday afternoon in central Baghdad, killing at least nine people, wounding 50 more and adding to worries that the relative calm of recent months may not last.
AP - The image turns Patrick Reuben's stomach: someone cutting off his twin brother's finger and putting it in a package with other severed digits.
AP - The leader of the immigration agency that grants citizenship is stepping down after a tenure in which he drastically increased the cost of becoming an American but failed to reduce the amount of time people must wait.
Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice said on Thursday the United States is worried about
terrorism in Latin America but declined comment on the chances
Venezuela might be put on a U.S. terrorism blacklist.
AP - House Democratic leaders agreed Thursday to a rare closed-door session
Reuters - A Chaldean Catholic archbishop who
was kidnapped in Iraq last month was found dead on Thursday,
his body half-buried in an empty lot in the northern city of
Mosul, police said.