AP - As of Friday, April 4, 2008, at least 4,012 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 3,273 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AP - In chilling videos shown to a jury Friday, men accused of plotting to bring down jetliners over the Atlantic called for revenge for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and praised Osama bin Laden.
Reuters - U.S. private security firm
Blackwater's deal to protect American diplomats in Baghdad will
be extended for a year while the FBI investigates a 2007
incident in which the company's guards are accused of killing
17 Iraqis, the State Department said on Friday.
AFP - Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier on Friday blasted a sniper attack on Canadian civilians visiting a town in southern Israel said to be under constant threat of rocket fire from Gaza.
AP - The number of people who legally immigrated to the U.S. dropped 17 percent last year, largely because of administrative problems, according to a Homeland Security Department report.
AP - U.S. forces are pushing Shiite militias farther from the Green Zone in an attempt to put the area out of range for rockets and mortars that have recently pounded the diplomatic and government enclave.
AP - Foreign students in the United States studying science, math, engineering and technology can stay in the country 17 months longer if their future employers comply with an immigration verification program of the Homeland Security Department.
AP - One of three men accused of plotting to kill U.S. soldiers overseas showed a government informant videos displaying gruesome beheadings and U.S. Marines killing Iraqis, the informant said Friday in federal court.
AP - U.S. soldiers fanned out with search dogs and shovels after getting a series of tips.
Reuters - Six Britons accused of plotting to blow
up at least seven transatlantic airliners recorded martyrdom
videos saying the attacks would be revenge for the U.S.
invasion of Iraq, a London court was told on Friday.