Homeland Security employees not satisfied with their jobs (AP)

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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff speaks during an interview in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 8, 2008. Chertoff was one of just a handful of Justice Department appointees who had been confirmed on Sept. 11; FBI Director Robert Mueller was not even nominated by President Bush until July 2001 and did not take the oath of office until a week before the attacks. 'We faced 9/11 with many of the positions not populated. That's not a responsible way to deal with the threats we have now,' Chertoff said. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Homeland Security Department employees mostly are an unhappy lot.


 

Pentagon institute calls Iraq war ‘a major debacle’ with outcome ‘in doubt’ (McClatchy Newspapers)

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US soldiers patrol the village of Mullah Eid, 8 kms south of Baquba, as the sun rises in February 2008. About 300,000 US military veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan currently suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or major depression, an independent study released Thursday estimates.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON? The war in Iraq has become "a major debacle" and the outcome "is in doubt" despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon's premier military educational institute.


 

Canada commends Iran for probing threats to Nobelist (AFP)

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Canada commended the Iranian government on Thursday for investigating death threats against Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, pictured in 2007.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - Canada commended the Iranian government on Thursday for investigating death threats against Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi.


 

Carter meets with more Hamas leaders, defends peace efforts (AP)

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Former U.S. President Carter smiles during his meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, not pictured, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, April 17, 2008. Hamas says a delegation from Gaza has entered Egypt for a meeting with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The Islamic militant party, which rules the Gaza Strip, announced Wednesday two of its Gaza leaders, Mahmoud Zahar and Said Siyam, are going to meet Carter in Cairo either Wednesday or Thursday. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)AP - Jimmy Carter held another meeting with officials from the Islamic militant group Hamas on Thursday, arguing it is necessary to talk to all parties to achieve peace between the Palestinians and Israel.


 

Bush, British PM stress common ground (AP)

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President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown walk from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 17, 2008, to take part in a joint news conference in the Rose Garden. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown tried to dispel doubts about their relationship Thursday, showcasing personal bonhomie as well as common ground on vexing issues such as the Iraq war, a showdown with Iran, global trade and the crises in Sudan and Zimbabwe.


 

Democrats seek to avoid Iraq funding vote this fall (AP)

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AP - Democrats in Congress, seeking to avoid a vote on funding the Iraq war during the fall campaign season, are considering combining President Bush's two pending requests into a single bill to be voted on this spring.

 

Fact check: Obama, Clinton and the Weather Underground (AP)

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This May 17, 1982 file photo Bill Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground, walks with wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and their son, Zayd Dohrn, 4, outside Federal Court in New York. Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, was asked about Ayers, now a University of Illinois professor who was once part of the radical Weather Underground, as part of a discussion of his patriotism during the Democratic presidential debate Wednesday night, April 16, 2008, in Philadelphia. Obama suggested he barely knows Ayers and shouldn't be held accountable for anything Ayers said or did. (AP Photo/David Handschuh, File)AP - Sen. Barack Obama is defending his relationship with a former radical whose provocative words were wrongly linked by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.


 

Brown seeks tighter Iran sanctions (AFP)

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (L) looks on as he and US President George W. Bush conduct a press conference April 17, 2008 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. Brown called for tightening European sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear program, specifically targeting investments in liquefied natural gas.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday called for tightening European sanctions on Iran over its suspect nuclear program, specifically targeting investments in liquefied natural gas.


 

Methodists defer key Israeli divestment measure (Reuters)

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Reuters - United Methodist Church officials on Thursday put aside a proposal that called for the church to divest some of its holdings in companies profiting from Israel's West Bank occupation.

 

U.S. lacks anti-terrorism plan in Pakistan: report (Reuters)

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US soldiers board a helicopter near the Afghan-Pakistani border at Torkham in March 2008. More than six years after the September 11 attacks, the United States still does not have a coherent plan to destroy the terrorist threat, according to an independent government watchdog.(AFP/File/Sardar Ahmad)Reuters - The United States has failed to eliminate the terrorist threat in Pakistan's tribal areas and has no comprehensive plan to do so, U.S. government investigators said on Thursday.


 

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