AP - CIA Director Michael Hayden said Monday that the alleged Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in September would have produced enough plutonium for one or two bombs within a year of becoming operational.
Reuters - A suspected Syrian reactor bombed by
Israel had the capacity to produce enough nuclear material to
fuel one to two weapons a year, CIA Director Michael Hayden
said on Monday.
AP - Bombardments by suspected militants killed four U.S. soldiers Monday as troops tried to push Shiite fighters farther from the U.S.-protected Green Zone and out of range of their rockets and mortars.
AP - As of Monday, April 28, 2008, at least 4,056 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 3,306 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AP - The United States is accusing Iran and Syria of trying to destabilize Iraq.
AFP - The State Department is short of staff to meet the Pentagon's need to reinforce the provincial reconstruction teams (PRT) in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior US official said Monday.
Reuters - Israeli fire hit a house in the Gaza Strip
on Monday while a family was eating breakfast, killing six
Palestinians, including four children and their mother,
residents and medical workers said.
AP - CBS News journalist Richard Butler said he believes he was kidnapped in Iraq by policemen with sympathies toward the Hezbollah but isn't entirely sure who held him captive for two months or why.
Reuters - U.S. forces killed 45 Shi'ite
militiamen in Baghdad in fierce fighting that included a tank
battle with dozens of gunmen who attacked a checkpoint under
cover of a dust storm, military officials said on Monday.
Time.com - The Sunnis hated it when Maliki flirted with Sadr. Now they are flirting with Maliki, who is fighting Sadr. The Shi'ite cleric may still have the last laugh